Ke Shi

Abstract

With the upturn in living standards and increasing work stress, people have started to pay more attention to how happy they feel in their daily lives. Evaluating people's happiness is becoming increasingly important in scientific fields. The focus of this thesis is to build a rational happiness function and to do simulations on several kinds of social networks related to the real world in a trading model with only two types of goods but no common currency. The purpose of the simulations is to seek the equilibrium points of the trading system. For this model, the parameters in the function and the shape of networks are key factors that affect the experimental results.

Library of Congress Subject Headings

Happiness--Economic aspects--Mathematical models; Social networks--Mathematical models; Commerce--Mathematical models; Social exchange--Simulation methods; Multiagent systems

Publication Date

5-1-2012

Document Type

Thesis

Department, Program, or Center

School of Mathematical Sciences (COS)

Advisor

Brooks, Bernard

Comments

Note: imported from RIT’s Digital Media Library running on DSpace to RIT Scholar Works. Physical copy available through RIT's The Wallace Library at: BF575.H27 S44 2012

Campus

RIT – Main Campus

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