Emergence of opinion leaders in reference networks.

Individuals often refer to opinions of others when they make decisions in the real world. Our question is how the people's reference structure self-organizes when people try to provide correct answers by referring to more accurate agents. We constructed an adaptive network model, in which each...

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Main Authors: Mariko I Ito, Hisashi Ohtsuki, Akira Sasaki
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5868794?pdf=render