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Showing 1 to 20 of 106 for “"network formation"”.
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Essays on Network formation games
This dissertation focuses on studying various network formation games in Economics. We explore a different model in each chapter to capture various aspects of networks. Chapter 1provides an overview of this dissertation. Chapter 2 studies the possible Nash equilibrium configurations in a model of …
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Network Formation and Economic Applications
Networks, generically, refer to any application of graph theory in economics. Consider an undirected graph where nodes represent players and links represent relationships between them. Players can both form and delete links by which we mean that they can both form new relationships and terminate …
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A game-theoretic network formation model
We study the dynamics of a game-theoretic network formation model that yields large-scale small-world networks. So far, mostly stochastic frameworks have been utilized to explain the emergence of these networks. On the other hand, it is natural to seek for game-theoretic network formation models in …
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Computational modelling of polymer network formation
… most relevant properties of the forming polymer network in step-growth polymerisation. As model systems, epoxy-amine copolymers were used, with different monomer functionalities of the hardener molecules. Using numerical simulations on a graph, which is essentially a simulated random process …
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COMPUTATIONAL AND EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES ON NETWORK FORMATION
… that address three gaps in the current network formation models utilized by social scientists, including sociologists, economists, and cognitive scientists. Here, we wanted to unveil and move beyond certain hidden assumptions and necessary simplifications that lie behind existing …
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Ad hoc network formation using Bluetooth scatternets
Thesis (M.Eng. and S.B.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2001.
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Social Interactions and Network Formation -- EmpiricalModeling and Applications
… spread of obesity. Studies reveal that social networks play an important role as channels to disseminate information or facilitate activities. By using the spatial autoregressive (SAR) model to study social interactions, one can utilize the detailed network information to construct a spatial …
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Stability, Efficiency, and Equity in Network Formation Games
Strategic network formation has seen sparse application in international relations (IR) where it can be used to model the evolution of relationships among international actors. Of interest to IR theorists is the relative stability of the international system: instability in the system could signal …
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Vascular Network Formation via 3D Printing and Cell-Based Approaches
… engineering. A lack of a perfusable channel network within a large and densely populated tissue engineered construct leads to necrotic core formation, preventing fabrication of functional tissues and organs. While many approaches have been reported for forming vascular networks, including …
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Rumor source identification, contagion processes, and dynamics of social network formation and evolution
… First we consider problems dealing with information flow, where function follows form. We look at how certain network structures affect information propagation in those networks, and what consequence that holds for inferences about such flows. We examine the problem of rumor source …
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A study of monomer liquid mixtures and polymer network formation at a solid surface using molecular dynamics
… to elucidate the effect of a fibre on polymer network structure.The DREIDING force field has been widely used, in molecular simulations, to predict thermomechanical properties in reinforced epoxy composites, such as the well-known EPON 862/DETDA matrix. This work compares four variations of …
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A Trust-Based Relay Selection Approach to the Multi-Hop Network Formation Problem in Cognitive Radio Networks
… resource. In cooperative communications and networking, users share resources and collaborate in a distributed approach, similar to entities of active social groups in self organizational communities. Users’ information may be shared by the user and also by the cooperative users, in …
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Modeling and Analysis of Interaction Networks in Ecological Systems
Understanding how networks form and evolve is an important question in many fields such as ecology, epidemiology, economics, and sociology. Studying the mechanisms of network formation can yield insight into which factors are involved in edge formation and network growth. This thesis explores …
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Engineering biomaterial surfaces with N-cadherin
… angiogenic factor secretion, and neural network formation. First, cell-cell adhesion was reproduced by tethering the recombinant N-Cadherin to hydrogel surfaces (Chapter 2). Second, soluble N-Cadherin was introduced into clusters of bone marrow stromal cells (BMSCs) to examine their …
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Engineered, perfusable, human microvascular networks on a microfluidic chip
… for engineering perfusable, microvascular networks on-demand using state of the art microfluidics technology. We have demonstrated the utility of this platform for studying cancer metastasis and as a test bed for drug discovery and analysis. In parallel, this platform enabled us to study, …
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Networks, Clubs and Matching
This PhD dissertation is a study of how social networks and clubs form in different contexts. Chapter 1 investigates the incentives of individuals to make introductions (the act of creating a link for two neighbours) in a social network. The chapter assumes that players are endowed with different …
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Processing and microstructure of standard and modified macro-defect-free cements
… chemical reactions triggered an interplay of network formation and simultaneous network degradation.
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Causal inference for complex data: randomization inference for treatment effect heterogeneity, network outcomes, and subgroup specific effects
… the method to allow for including additional information is also included. The second method extends randomization inference to the study of network formation. Previous approaches either required strong parametric assumptions or only allowed for pre-treatment networks to be used. This approach …
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Essays in Financial and Theoretical Economics
… initial shareholder (with imperfect, private information about the firm’s value of the motion) depend on the private information held, but the selling decision also depends on the Institutional Investor’s price offer. The voting decision of the Institutional Investor depends on the bias and …
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