Agents Prefer Sparse Social Clouds.

What social cloud structure is likely to emerge when agents engage in closeness‐based resource‐sharing and establish their resource‐sharing network strategically? This is the central question of this research. This letter looks at how cost‐benefit trade‐offs in maintaining connections, and resource supply and demand influence network formation. The study reveals that agents prefer a sparse network over a dense one. A dense network is likely to form when demand exceeds supply, while a sparse network is likely to form when supply exceeds demand.