Interactions Among Agent Variables and Evolution of Social Clusters

Abstract

In this paper, we first review some basic concepts associated with a model for social interaction previously proposed by us. Each agent is seen as an array of variables that can be found in different states. The agents are then allowed to interact and form groups based on their variables. We discuss how spin-glass type physics may be appropriate for our model. Several types of variables and costs associated with flipping the variables are discussed. Then some simple graphs are presented to understand the formation of various levels of identities within social clusters. In the end, we analyze events from the French revolution and the Russian revolution to to understand how different variables and identities interact within a hierarchical social structure.

The paper was written as mostly a review of a model developed 2002 onwards by the author in some personal papers, and submitted to a journal in Jan 2009 when the author was at Princeton. It is still being refereed. The author has now left Princeton. minor revision