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A Modified Galam's Model [PDF]

open access: yes
In this paper we analyze the stochastic model proposed by Galam in [2], for information spreading in a `word-of-mouth' process among agents, based on a majority rule.
Annamaria Sorato   +2 more
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Sociophysics : probability of inconsistency in opinion dynamics

open access: yes, 2011
Sociophysics is an interdisciplinary field which applies the methodology of physics to questions in sociology. In particular, opinion dynamics provides agent-based models to study processes of belief revision in societies.
Wenmackers, Sylvia   +2 more
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Delay model for the dynamics of information units in the digital environment

open access: yesFrontiers in Complex Systems
The digital revolution has transformed the exchange of information between people, blurring the traditional roles of sources and recipients as active and passive entities.
Sebastián Pinto   +7 more
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Sociophysics & Sociocybernetics: An Essay on the Natural Roots & Limits of Political Control [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
One of the critical problems of sociocybernetics is to determine the necessity, possibility and desirability of social control by political institutions.
Arnopoulos, Paris
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Dividir para reinar [PDF]

open access: yesSociologia: Revista da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, 2012
The aim of this paper is to briefly present Sociophysics, a discipline that in recent decades has been emerging on the borders between Physics and the Social Sciences.
Teresa Vaz Martins, Raúl Toral
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A Renormalization Group Like Model for a Democratic Dictatorship

open access: yes, 2015
We review a model of sociophysics which deals with democratic voting in bottom up hierarchical systems. The connexion to the original physical model and technics are outlined underlining both the similarities and the differences.
Serge Galam, Galam, Serge
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WHY EVERYTHING GETS SLOWER?

open access: yesTASK Quarterly, 2003
A social system is represented by the Barab´asi-Albert model. At each node of the graph, an Ising spin is placed, S = ±1, with antiferromagnetic interaction between connected nodes.
DIETRICH STAUFFER, KRZYSZTOF KUŁAKOWSKI
doaj  

Three Risky Decades: A Time for Econophysics? [PDF]

open access: yesEntropy (Basel), 2022
Kutner R, Schinckus C, Stanley HE.
europepmc   +1 more source

Mass Media and Polarisation Processes in the Bounded Confidence Model of Opinion Dynamics [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper presents a social simulation in which we add an additional layer of mass media communication to the social network \'bounded confidence\' model of Deffuant et al (2000).
Gary Mckeown, Noel Sheehy
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