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most citedSociophysics: A review of Galam models

485 citations

9 papers

nlin.AO200915 cited

French Roadmap for complex Systems 2008-2009

Paul Bourgine, David Chavalarias, Edith Perrier +78

This second issue of the French Complex Systems Roadmap is the outcome of the Entretiens de Cargese 2008, an interdisciplinary brainstorming session organized over one week in 2008…

physics.soc-ph2008485 cited

Sociophysics: A review of Galam models

Serge Galam

We review a series of models of sociophysics introduced by Galam and Galam et al in the last 25 years. The models are divided in five different classes, which deal respectively wit…

physics.soc-ph2007313 cited

The role of inflexible minorities in the breaking of democratic opinion dynamics

Serge Galam, Frans Jacobs

We study the effect of inflexible agents on two state opinion dynamics. The model operates via repeated local updates of random grouping of agents. While floater agents do eventual…

physics.soc-ph200667 cited

Chaotic, staggered and polarized dynamics in opinion forming: the contrarian effect

Christian Borghesi, Serge Galam

We revisit the no tie breaking 2-state Galam contrarian model of opinion dynamics for update groups of size 3. While the initial model assumes a constant density of contrarians a f…

nlin.AO200516 cited

Metamimetic Games : Modeling Metadynamics in Social Cognition

David Chavalarias

Imitation is fundamental in the understanding of social system dynamics. But the diversity of imitation rules employed by modelers proves that the modeling of mimetic processes can…

nlin.AO20055 cited

Measuring Generalized Preferential Attachment in Dynamic Social Networks

Camille Roth

The mechanism of preferential attachment underpins most recent social network formation models. Yet few authors attempt to check or quantify assumptions on this mechanism. We call…