Friendship Dynamics: Modelling Social Relationships through a Fuzzy Agent-Based Simulation

Table 2

Comparison among the different ABM, in increasing order of fuzzification.

	MentatCrisp	MentatFuzzSim	MentatFuzzFri	MentatFuzzAll
	(0,0)	(1,0)	(0,1)	(1,1)
Config. random friendship
Mean couple 𝑅Similarity	0.76*	0.77	0.76*	0.77
Mean couple 𝑅Friendship	(**)	(**)	0.72*	0.80
Mean couple 𝑅Compatibility	0.76*	0.77	0.74*	0.79
Config. similar friendship
Mean couple 𝑅Similarity	0.73*	0.77	0.73*	0.78
Mean couple 𝑅Friendship	(**)	(**)	0.54*	0.76
Mean couple 𝑅Compatibility	0.73*	0.77	0.64*	0.77

*: The crisp Mentat similarity has other range, but here they have been normalised in the interval [0,1] in order to be compared.
**: When the friendship is not fuzzified, all the couples are friends (as this is a Boolean property).