Evolution of Opinions on Social Networks in the Presence of Competing Committed Groups

Jierui Xie; Jeffrey Emenheiser; Matthew Kirby; Sameet Sreenivasan; Boleslaw K. Szymanski; Gyorgy Korniss

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0033215

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Evolution of Opinions on Social Networks in the Presence of Competing Committed Groups

Jierui Xie,

Affiliations Department of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, United States of America, Social and Cognitive Networks Academic Research Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, United States of America
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Jeffrey Emenheiser,

Affiliations Department of Physics, Applied Physics, and Astronomy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, United States of America, Social and Cognitive Networks Academic Research Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, United States of America
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Matthew Kirby,

Affiliations Department of Physics, Applied Physics, and Astronomy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, United States of America, Social and Cognitive Networks Academic Research Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, United States of America
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Sameet Sreenivasan ,

* E-mail: sreens@rpi.edu

Affiliations Department of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, United States of America, Department of Physics, Applied Physics, and Astronomy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, United States of America, Social and Cognitive Networks Academic Research Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, United States of America
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Boleslaw K. Szymanski,

Affiliations Department of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, United States of America, Social and Cognitive Networks Academic Research Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, United States of America
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Gyorgy Korniss

Affiliations Department of Physics, Applied Physics, and Astronomy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, United States of America, Social and Cognitive Networks Academic Research Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, United States of America
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Evolution of Opinions on Social Networks in the Presence of Competing Committed Groups

Jierui Xie,
Jeffrey Emenheiser,
Matthew Kirby,
Sameet Sreenivasan,
Boleslaw K. Szymanski,
Gyorgy Korniss

Published: March 20, 2012
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0033215

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