As the affiliation network of churches may potentially benefit public health, the impact of participants’ preferences on the affiliation network bears further study. This paper attempts to use agentbased modeling techniques associated with geographic information to study the affiliation network between churches and participants. Using churches in ZIP Code 30318 in Atlanta in Georgia, this study...

Our society contains all types of organizations, such as companies, research groups and hobby clubs. Affiliation networks, as a large and important portion of social networks, consist of individuals and their affiliation relations: Two individuals are connected by a link if they belong to the same organization(s). Affiliation networks naturally contain many fully connected cliques, since the no...

In the version of this article initially published, the first affiliation (affiliation number 1) was incorrectly stated as "Division of Gastroentorology, Department of Internal Medicine." The correct affiliation is "Department of Internal Medicine."

Correction In the original publication [1] are errors in the acknowledgement section in the backmatter. The corrections can be found below in this Erratum. Incorrect affiliation 4: Guangdong Provincial Center for Skin Diseases and Sexually Transmitted Infections Control, No. 2 Lujing Road, Guangzhou, China, 510095. Correct affiliation 4: Guangdong Provincial Center for Skin Diseases and Sexuall...