On opinion dynamics in heterogeneous networks

Proceedings of the American Control Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2807-2812

  Mirtabatabaei, Anahita ^a   Bullo, Francesco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS;

COMPLEX DYNAMIC BEHAVIOR; FIXED TOPOLOGIES; INFINITE TIME; INTERCONNECTION TOPOLOGIES; MONOTONICITY; OPINION DYNAMICS; STATE-DEPENDENT; STEADY STATE;

TOPOLOGY;

EID: 80053150769     PISSN: 07431619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/acc.2011.5991474     Document Type: Conference Paper

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