Acta Physica Polonica B

Vol. 37, No. 11, November 2006, page 3171


Efficiency of Pair Formation in a Model Society

M. Wasko, K. Kulakowski

In a recent paper a set of differential equations was proposed to describe a social process, where pairs of partners emerge in a community. The choice was performed on a basis of attractive resources and of random initial preferences. An efficiency of the process, defined as the probability of finding a partner, was found to depend on the community size. Here we demonstrate, that if the resources are not relevant, the efficiency is equal to unity; everybody finds a partner. With this new formulation, about 80 percent of community members enter into dyads; the remaining 20 percent form triads.

PACS numbers: 87.23.Ge



 
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