Innovation diffusion Sample Clauses

Innovation diffusion. The study of innovation diffusion – how certain practices spread throughout an organization or population has received a large amount of study. In recent years many formal models and analyses have emerged. The basic situation is once again a graph on which agents are situated as nodes. The edges between agents could be weighted or not, and directed or undirected. A subset of agents are called innovators and they start with the value 1, whereas all other agents start with value 0. On each time step, every agent evaluates which state it should be in depending upon the states of its neighbors. Different interaction rules have been specified: Majority If the majority of an agents neighbors are in state 1, take change to state 1. Otherwise do not. Linear Threshold Model Calculate the influence on an agent as a weighted sum of the edge weights and the agent value. Each agent switches if the influence is greater than some threshold value. The key questions asked are, at what threshold value does the value 1 diffuse through the entire popula- tion? This is called the “contagion threshold”. Which nodes should be initially chosen to be 1 in order for the entire population to eventually take upon the innovation? A set of agents initially set to 1 which diffuse through an entire population are called a “contagion set”. In some cases the progressive assumption is made – once agents switch to the new behavior 1, they cannot switch back. However, it is shown that there exits a finite contagious set in the non-progressive case if and only if there is a finite contagious set in the progressive case [Xxxxxx, 2000, Kleinbergn, 2007]. This allows one to study the progressive case and apply its insights to the non-progressive case – for a few types of questions only of course. See [Xxxxxxxxxx, 2007, Xxxxx et al., 2003, Xxxxxx, 2000, Xxxxx, 2002] for more details.
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