
Adaptive Social Hierarchies: From Nature to Networks
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The ROA is defined as the time taken for the system to re-achieve T
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after the
perturbation.
12.4 Pairwise ASH
Much like the way animal dominance hierarchies form through dyadic interactions,
we start with a simple pairwise switch or exchange method of sorting the ranks of
the nodes, in concordance to their attributes. When a pair of nodes meet, they trade
their attributes and ranks. If the order of their ranks is in contradiction to the order
of their attributes, their ranks are switched. If there is no contradiction, their ranks
are left unchanged. The rules for this method of ranking are shown ...