Gallagher index for sociophysical models

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 387, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2937-2951

  Gwizdalla, Tomasz M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

Author keywords

Sociophysics; Sznajd model

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR AUTOMATA; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ELECTION PROCESS; GOVERNMENT STABILITY; SOCIOPHYSICS; SZNAJD MODELS;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 40249114690     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2008.01.028     Document Type: Article

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