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Determinants of Social Networking Mechanisms and their Potential Effects on a Place-Based Geography: An Agent-Based Simulation Approach

    Andreas Koch

GI_Forum 2017, Volume 5, Issue 1, pp. 369-382, 2017/06/30

Journal for Geographic Information Science

doi: 10.1553/giscience2017_01_s369

doi: 10.1553/giscience2017_01_s369


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doi:10.1553/giscience2017_01_s369



doi:10.1553/giscience2017_01_s369

Abstract

The size and composition of social networks rely on the characteristics of the nodes and the infrastructure, both tangible and intangible. The networking mechanisms themselves, however, depend on circumstances such as meeting or team collaboration opportunities. A set of determinants of networking mechanisms will be discussed in this paper, and in particular the number of events over a given period is highlighted. This aim will be implemented by an agent-based simulation approach and empirically verified using network data from an Austrian regional project. Finally, the simulation results will be used to draw some conclusions on a place-based geography derived from the network-based geography.

Keywords: team assembly mechanisms, event dependency, agent-based simulation, social networks