Consensus formation on a triad scale-free network

Several cases of the Sznajd model of socio-physics, that only a group of people sharing the same opinion can convince their neighbors, have been simulated on a more realistic network with a stronger clustering. In addition, many opinions, instead of usually only two, and a convincing probability have also been considered. Finally, with minor changes we obtain a vote distribution in good agreement with reality.

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Year of publication:	2005
Authors:	Sousa, A.O.
Published in:	Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications. - Elsevier, ISSN 0378-4371. - Vol. 348.2005, C, p. 701-710
Publisher:	Elsevier
Subject:	Social systems \| Scale-free networks \| Small-world systems

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Type of publication:	Article
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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