Dynamics of Quality Perception in a Social Network: A Cellular Automaton Based Model in Aesthetics Services

Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science

Volumn 252, Issue , 2009, Pages 157-180

  Zimbres, Rubens A ^a   de Oliveira, Pedro P B ^a  

^a MACKENZIE PRESBYTERIAN UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

Author keywords

aesthetics services; Cellular automata modelling; dynamics of quality perception; management; role theory; social networks

Indexed keywords

AESTHETICS SERVICES; CELLULAR AUTOMATA MODELS; CELLULAR AUTOMATON MODELS; LINEAR REGRESSION MODELS; LONGITUDINAL RESEARCH; ROLE THEORY; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEWS; SERVICE PERFORMANCE; SERVICE PROVIDER; SERVICE QUALITY; SOCIAL NETWORKS; TIME INTERVAL;

CELLULAR AUTOMATA; FLAME RESISTANCE; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ROBOTS; SIMULATORS; SURVEYS; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

AUTOMATA THEORY;

EID: 70349398827     PISSN: 15710661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.entcs.2009.09.020     Document Type: Article

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