The effect of zealotry in the naming game model of opinion dynamics

Proceedings - IEEE Military Communications Conference MILCOM

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Verma, Gunjan ^a   Swami, Ananthram ^a   Chan, Kevin ^a  

^a U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE CONNECTIVITY; FINITE POPULATION; GAME MODELS; OPINION DYNAMICS; SOCIAL NETWORKS; STEADY STATE SOLUTION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MILITARY COMMUNICATIONS;

DYNAMICS;

EID: 84874296869     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MILCOM.2012.6415797     Document Type: Conference Paper

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