Opinion formation in the social web: Agent-based simulations of opinion convergence and divergence

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 7103 LNAI, Issue , 2012, Pages 288-303

  Sobkowicz, Pawel ^a   Kaschesky, Michael ^a   Bouchard, Guillaume ^b  

^a BERN UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Switzerland)

^b XEROX RESEARCH CENTRE EUROPE   (France)

Author keywords

Agent based Simulations; Economics; Experimentation; Human Factors; Measurement; Opinion Research; Reliability

Indexed keywords

AGENT BASED SIMULATION; CONSENSUS FORMATION; EXPERIMENTATION; LARGE PARTS; NETWORK DYNAMICS; NONLINEAR INTERPLAY; OPINION DYNAMICS; OPINION FORMATION; SOCIAL DYNAMICS; SOCIAL NETWORKS;

DATA MINING; DYNAMICS; ECONOMICS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; MEASUREMENTS; RELIABILITY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 84255192293     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-27609-5_18     Document Type: Conference Paper

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