Modeling opinion dynamics in social networks

WSDM 2014 - Proceedings of the 7th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 403-412

  Das, Abhimanyu ^a   Gollapudi, Sreenivas ^a   Munagala, Kamesh ^b  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^b Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

biased assimilation; opinion formation; social networks

Indexed keywords

CONSUMER PRODUCTS; DATA MINING; EXPERIMENTS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; ITERATIVE METHODS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

BIASED ASSIMILATION; INITIAL CONDITIONS; ONLINE USERS; OPINION DYNAMICS; OPINION FORMATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL INSIGHTS; SOCIAL MEDIA; VIRAL MARKETING;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84906886549     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2556195.2559896     Document Type: Conference Paper

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