id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt 4q77fq99502 Anthony Robert Strathman Application of Statistical Mechanical Methods to the Modeling of Social Networks 2013 .txt text/plain 208 9 41 We introduce an agent-based model of social behavior, designed to model the formation and dissolution of social ties. With the recent availability of large-scale social data sets, social networks have become open to quantitative analysis via the methods of statistical physics. cache/4q77fq99502.txt txt/4q77fq99502.txt