An electoral preferences model based on self-organizing maps

Journal of Computational Science

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 345-352

  Neme, Antonio ^a   Hernández, Sergio ^a   Neme, Omar ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE LA CIUDAD DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO NACIONAL   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Agent based modeling; Electoral models; Self organization systems; Social dynamics

Indexed keywords

AGENT-BASED MODELING; GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATIONS; MODEL-BASED OPC; NEURAL NETWORK MODEL; RANDOM FIELDS; SELF ORGANIZING; SOCIAL DYNAMICS; SPATIAL PATTERN FORMATION; SPATIAL PATTERNS; SPATIAL STRUCTURE; TOPOGRAPHIC MAP;

CONFORMAL MAPPING; MAPS;

SELF ORGANIZING MAPS;

EID: 82455192318     PISSN: 18777503     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jocs.2011.08.003     Document Type: Article

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