Abstract: With the development of Internet, social network modeling has been a fundamental tool for many research areas. In this paper, several social network modeling methods are studied and a new social network modelling method is proposed based on new characters of nowadays’ social network. Then a simulation system is implemented to generate networks according to the proposed modeling method. Generated networks are analyzed from several aspects, including network degree, degree distribution, average shortest path length, and clustering coefficient. The simulation results show the effect of the proposed modeling method.

Key words:  , social network； complex network； modeling and simulation