Resonance within the client-to-client system: Criticality, Cascades, and Tipping Points

Informing Science

Volumn 11, Issue , 2008, Pages 311-348

  Gill, T Grandon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical mass; Criticality; Diffusion; Information cascades; Informing systems; Resonance; Tipping points

Indexed keywords

EID: 58149313911     PISSN: 15214672     EISSN: 15214672     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.28945/450     Document Type: Article

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