Leaving us in tiers: Can homophily be used to generate tiering effects?

Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 318-343

  Hirshman, Brian R ^a   St Charles, Jesse ^a   Carley, Kathleen M ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Agent based simulation; Dynamic network analysis; Homophily; Social group size; Tiering

Indexed keywords

EID: 81855182124     PISSN: 1381298X     EISSN: 15729346     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10588-011-9088-4     Document Type: Article

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