Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America.
PLoS One. 2024 Apr 9;19(4):e0300399. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0300399. eCollection 2024.
We propose a set of metrics, based upon the four flows theory of the communicative constitution of organizations, to evaluate the emergence of organization in a social network. Using an agent-based model (ABM), we validate that our metrics chart the evolution of partial organizations as the population progresses from complete dissociation to unified allegiance. Our metrics allow the evaluation of organizational strength much more efficiently than previous, context-specific methods. The simulation produces other results consistent with human society, such as stable heterogeneity of structures and organizational figureheads, further validating our results. The ABM of emergent organization incorporates only widely-observed cognitive behaviors and the recognition by agents of group membership, without any cooperation among the agents. The four flows are produced solely by agents biasing their limited communication resources in favor of allies. While reaffirming the centrality of communication patterns to organization, we thus also challenge the minimal conditions required to produce organizing behavior and complex social structures.
我们提出了一套基于组织的交际构成的四流理论的指标，用于评估社交网络中组织的出现。使用基于代理的模型 (ABM)，我们验证了我们的指标可以描绘出随着群体从完全分离到统一忠诚的发展，部分组织的演变。我们的指标比以前的特定于上下文的方法更有效地评估组织的实力。模拟还产生了与人类社会一致的其他结果，例如结构和组织领袖的稳定异质性，进一步验证了我们的结果。新兴组织的 ABM 仅包含广泛观察到的认知行为和代理对群体成员身份的识别，而代理之间没有任何合作。这四种流完全是通过代理偏爱他们有限的沟通资源来支持盟友产生的。虽然重申了沟通模式对组织的核心地位，但我们也挑战了产生组织行为和复杂社会结构所需的最小条件。
