Socially-constrained exogenously-driven opinion dynamics: Explorations with a multi-agent model

Proceedings - 2011 5th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems, SASO 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 158-167

  Parunak, H Van Dyke ^a   Downs, Elizabeth ^a   Yinger, Andrew ^a  

^a JACOBS ENGINEERING   (United States)

Author keywords

agent based modeling; cognitive collapse; cognitive convergence; emergent behavior; opinion dynamics

Indexed keywords

AGENT-BASED MODELING; COGNITIVE COLLAPSE; COGNITIVE CONVERGENCE; EMERGENT BEHAVIORS; OPINION DYNAMICS;

CYBERNETICS; DYNAMICS; METASTABLE PHASES;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 81255147973     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SASO.2011.27     Document Type: Conference Paper

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