Opinion formation under costly expression

ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Wu, Fang ^a   Huberman, Bernardo A ^a  

^a HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Costly expression; Opinion formation

Indexed keywords

COSTLY EXPRESSION; DYNAMIC ASPECTS; ON-LINE OPINIONS; OPINION FORMATION; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; TRUST BUILDING; USER VIEW;

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 79955071565     PISSN: 21576904     EISSN: 21576912     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1858948.1858953     Document Type: Article

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