We study cultural dissemination in the context of an Axelrod-like agent-based model describing the spread of cultural traits across a society, with an added element of social influence. Thismodification produces absorbing states exhibiting greater variation in number and size of distinct cultural regions compared to the original Axelrodmodel, and we identify the mechanism responsible for this amplification in heterogeneity. We develop several new metrics to quantitatively characterize the heterogeneity and geometric qualities of these absorbing states. Additionally, we examine the dynamical approach to absorbing states in both our Social Influence Model as well as the Axelrod Model, which not only yields interesting insights into the di erences in behavior of the twomodels over time, but also provides amore comprehensive view into the behavior of Axelrod’s originalmodel. Thequantitativemetrics introduced in this paperhavebroadpotential applicability across a large variety of agent-based cultural dissemination models.

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文化传播：具有社会影响力的基于主体的模型

我们在基于 Axelrod 类代理的模型的背景下研究文化传播，该模型描述了文化特征在整个社会中的传播，并增加了社会影响的元素。与原始 Axelrod 模型相比，这种修改产生的吸收状态在不同文化区域的数量和大小上表现出更大的变化，我们确定了导致这种异质性放大的机制。我们开发了几个新的指标来定量描述这些吸收状态的异质性和几何特性。此外，我们研究了在我们的社会影响模型和 Axelrod 模型中吸收状态的动态方法，这不仅对两个模型随时间的行为差​​异产生了有趣的见解，而且还提供了对 Axelrod 原始模型行为的更全面的视图。本文介绍的定量度量在多种基于代理的文化传播模型中具有广泛的潜在适用性。