Heterogeneous bounds of confidence: Meet, discuss and find consensus!

Complexity

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 43-52

  Lorenz, Jan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Continuous opinion dynamics; Density based dynamics; Drifting; Extremism; Heterogeneous agents

Indexed keywords

EID: 77649102443     PISSN: 10762787     EISSN: 10990526     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cplx.20295     Document Type: Article

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