Emergence of metapopulations and echo chambers in mobile agents

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Starnini, Michele ^a   Frasca, Mattia ^b   Baronchelli, Andrea ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFIRMATION BIAS; HUMAN; METAPOPULATION; PHYSICAL MODEL; SCIENTIST; SOCIAL INTERACTION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

EID: 84984844834     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep31834     Document Type: Article

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