Abstract
It is a common phenomenon that at any gathering, people cluster into small and multiple groups to: chat, exchange ideas, establish relations, and explore collaborative opportunities either within their field of work or even in newer frontiers. Certain relationships remain strong and may eventually lead to fruitful collaborations while others may be short lived. Depiction and/or modelling of such an emergent social networking behaviours are inherently complex. With this motivation, in the context of an academic conference, this research focuses on the development of ‘Networking of Scholars at an Academic Conference (NASC) Model’ using Agent Based Modelling and Simulation (ABMS) technique. The paper describes the model and its implementation in NetLogo. NetLogo is powerful programming environment that facilitates the generation of scenarios and thus helps visualisation of emergent network of relationships among scholars.
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