A modified Galam's model for word-of-mouth information exchange

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 388, Issue 18, 2009, Pages 3901-3910

  Ellero, Andrea ^a   Fasano, Giovanni ^a   Sorato, Annamaria ^a  

^a CA' FOSCARI UNIVERSITY OF VENICE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Information spreading; Word of mouth process

Indexed keywords

STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

INFORMATION SPREADING; MAJORITY RULE; MODIFIED MODEL; NEW PARAMETERS; ORIGINAL MODEL; THEORETICAL VALUES; WORD OF MOUTH; WORD-OF-MOUTH INFORMATIONS;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

EID: 67649439050     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2009.06.002     Document Type: Article

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