English

Opinion dynamics driven by leaders, media, viruses and worms

Physics and Society 2009-11-13 v1 Computational Physics

Abstract

A model on the effects of leader, media, viruses, and worms and other agents on the opinion of individuals is developed and utilized to simulate the formation of consensus in society and price in market via excess between supply and demand. Effects of some time varying drives, (harmonic and hyperbolic) are also investigated. Key words: Opinion; Leader; Media; Market; Buyers; Sellers; Excess

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Cite

@article{arxiv.physics/0607264,
  title  = {Opinion dynamics driven by leaders, media, viruses and worms},
  author = {Caglar Tuncay},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0607264},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

14 pages, 7 figures (14, total) Will be published in IJMPC

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