Information and attitude diffusion in networks

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

Volumn 7227 LNCS, Issue , 2012, Pages 205-213

  Fu, Wai Tat ^a   Liao, Q Vera ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

active dissemination of information; Attitude diffusion; information cascades; selective exposure of information

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION; AGENT-BASED MODEL; INFORMATION DIFFUSION; NETWORK MODELS; NETWORK STRUCTURES; RECIPROCAL EFFECTS; SELECTIVE EXPOSURE OF INFORMATION; SMALL WORLD NETWORKS; SOCIAL REINFORCEMENT; SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; POLARIZATION;

DIFFUSION;

EID: 84859121209     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-29047-3_25     Document Type: Conference Paper

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