Models of opinion formation: Influence of opinion leaders

International Journal of Modern Physics C

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 93-109

  Boccara, Nino ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b CEA SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

Agent based models; Complex systems; Graphs; Opinion formation; Scale free networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 44349124722     PISSN: 01291831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0129183108011954     Document Type: Article

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