Network structures and agreement in social network simulations

JASSS

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2002, Pages

  Stocker, Rob ^a   Cornforth, David ^a   Bossomaier, T R J ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Asynchronous Update; Complex Systems; Hierarchical Networks; Random Networks; Scale free Networks; Social Networks; Social Simulations; Social Structures

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042690046     PISSN: 14607425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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