Simulating network formation through in-person interaction in a limited budget environment

Authors

  • Maria Loraine Ramos Menorca ⋅ PH National Institute of Physics, University of the Philippines Diliman
  • May Tan Lim ⋅ PH National Institute of Physics, University of the Philippines Diliman

Abstract

Networking among researchers is deemed important in gathering funds and developing collaborations. For researchers, in-person interactions through academic events such as conferences is still deemed as a prime networking opportunity despite constraints brought by geographical distance and travel cost. In this study, we aim to understand the effect of having limited researcher budget on networking in academic events. We simulated possible researcher-academic events participation for normally-distributed budgets with different values of average and variance. A synthetic network of researchers is created by forming a link whenever two researchers attend the same event. When the average budget is low, a large budget variance would offset the limited means of some by the more extensive travel of an equal minority. We also found that when researchers tend to go to higher-cost events given enough budget, the network contracts.

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Article ID

SPP-2019-1F-04

Section

Complex Systems and Data Analytics

Published

2019-05-22

How to Cite

[1]
MLR Menorca and MT Lim, Simulating network formation through in-person interaction in a limited budget environment, Proceedings of the Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas 37, SPP-2019-1F-04 (2019). URL: https://proceedings.spp-online.org/article/view/SPP-2019-1F-04.