Simulating Market Dynamics: Interactions between Consumer Psychology and Social Networks

Artificial Life

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 343-356

  Janssen, Marco A ^a   Jager, Wander ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Decision making; Heuristics; Market dynamics; Networks

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; HEURISTIC METHODS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

SOCIAL NETWORKS;

INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSUMER; MARKETING; METHODOLOGY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STATISTICS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSUMER SATISFACTION; MARKETING; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 0344465336     PISSN: 10645462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/106454603322694807     Document Type: Conference Paper

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