| Savitribai Phule Pune University |
| Title | Effect of money heterogeneity on resource dependency in complex networks |
| Author/s |
Harshit Agrawal
Studio Sirah, Bengaluru 560037, India Ashwin Lahorkar Pitney Bowes India Pvt. Ltd, Pune 411014, India Snehal M. Shekatkar Department of Scientific Computing, Modeling and Simulation, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune 411 007 India |
| Abstract | Exchange of resources among individual components of a system is fundamental to systems like a social network of humans and a network of cities and villages. For various reasons, the human society has come up with the notion of money as a proxy for the resources. Here we extend the model of resource dependencies in networks that was recently proposed by one of us, by incorporating the concept of money so that the vertices of a network can sell and buy required resources among themselves. We simulate the model using the configuration model as a substrate for homogeneous as well as heterogeneous degree distributions and using various exchange strategies. We show that a moderate amount of initial heterogeneity in the money on the vertices can significantly improve the survivability of Scale-free networks but not that of homogeneous networks like the Erdős-Rényi network. Our work is a step towards understanding the effect of presence of money on the resource distribution dynamics in complex networks. |
| Keywords | Complex Networks, Resource dependency, Network survivability |
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| Citing This Document | Harshit Agrawal, Ashwin Lahorkar, and Snehal M. Shekatkar, Effect of money heterogeneity on resource dependency in complex networks. Technical Report CMS-TR-20220822 of the Centre for Modeling and Simulation, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune 411007, India (2022); available at http://scms.unipune.ac.in/reports/. |
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| Contact | snehal.shekatkar@scms.unipune.ac.in |
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