Contacts with agreements: Towards face-to-face communication modelingContacts with agreements

Autor:	John R. Roy, Kei Fukuyama, Kiyoshi Kobayashi
Rok vydání:	1998
Předmět:	Core (game theory) Match model Transportation cost Operations research Economics General Social Sciences Inefficiency Face-to-face interaction General Environmental Science Random matching
Zdroj:	The Annals of Regional Science. 32:389-406
ISSN:	1432-0592 0570-1864
DOI:	10.1007/s001680050080
Popis:	In this paper a random matching model is elaborated to characterize bilateral interregional human face-to-face contacts. The bilateral contacts can be realized only when both parties agree to meet each other. Thus, mutual agreement is the core of our contact modeling. Spatial distribution of bilateral contacts can be described as the results of random matching by potential meeting partners. The failure in agreement of meeting is the major source of inefficiency in human contacts among regions. The paper provides a random matching scheme to describe the generation mechanism of inter-regional human contacts. The paper concludes by illustrating some numerical examples showing how changes in transportation costs can modify the inter-regional interactability in terms of the face-to-face contacts.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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