creators_name: Situngkir, Hokky
type: techreport
datestamp: 2007-11-28 03:14:08
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:57:01
metadata_visibility: show
title: Spreading of Information through “Silaturahmi” Network

ispublished: pub
subjects: comp-sci-stat-model
subjects: comp-sci-complex-theory
subjects: soc-psy
subjects: evol-psy
full_text_status: public
keywords: silaturahmi, social networks, small world topology, social organization, voting system.
abstract: The paper introduces the organization concept of silaturahmi that widely used as an important concept to maintain a lot of community structures in Indonesia. One of the organization is alumni forum where alumni gathers and establishes an institutional organization. The concept of silaturahmi is demonstrated to build a network among alumni that has been spread world-wide by observing the clustered gathered in social clusters. The paper reports the small world topology emerged and discusses some interesting conjectures regarding to social institutions that is made upon the concept of silaturahmi. 
date: 2007-12-01
date_type: published
institution: Bandung Fe Institute
department: Computational Sociology
refereed: TRUE
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citation:   Situngkir, Hokky  (2007) Spreading of Information through “Silaturahmi” Network.  [Departmental Technical Report]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/5848/1/2007z.pdf