The present work describes a utility-based, multi-agent, dynamic network model of phone call and SMS traffic in a population. The simulation is novel in its ability to generate interactions from both an asymmetric and a symmetric media simultaneously. Within the model, we develop and test a simple extension to the theory of media multiplexity, a well-known theory of how humans use the communication media available to them with different alters (friends). Model output qualitatively matches patterns in real data at the network-level and with respect to how humans use SMS and voice calls with different alters and thus shows general support for our theoretical claim. © 2013 Springer-Verlag.
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Joseph, K., Wei, W., & Carley, K. M. (2013). An agent-based model for simultaneous phone and SMS traffic over time. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 7812 LNCS, pp. 65–74). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37210-0_8
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