Simulation of Galam's contrarian opinions
Galam's model of people voting always against the majority is shown to give for the quenched case different results than
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Second-Level Digital Divide: Mapping Differences in People's Online Skills
Much of the existing approach to the digital divide suffers from an important limitation. It is based on a binary
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A Digital Signature with Threshold Generation and Verification
This paper proposes a signature scheme where the signatures are generated by the cooperation of a number of people from
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Efficient Choice, Inefficient Democracy? The Implications of Cable and Internet Access for Political Knowledge and Voter Turnout
This paper explains why, despite a marked increase in available political information on cable television and the Internet, citizens' levels
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A Historic Name-Trail Service
People change the identifiers through which they are reachable online as they change jobs or residences or Internet service providers.
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Successful E-Business Systems - Paypal
PayPal is an account-based system that allows anyone with an email address to send and receive online payment s. This
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A model of student's dilemma
Each year perhaps millions of young people face the following dilemma: should I continue my education or rather start working
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A Comparison of the XTAG and CLE Grammars for English
When people develop something intended as a large broad-coverage grammar, they usually have a more specific goal in mind. Sometimes
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Introduction to "The Supersymmetric World: The Beginnings of The Theory"
This is the foreword to the book we edited on the origins and early development of supersymmetry, which has been
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Adaptive simulated annealing (ASA): Lessons learned
Adaptive simulated annealing (ASA) is a global optimization algorithm based on an associated proof that the parameter space can be
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Computer Simulations of Opinions
We review the opinion dynamics in the computer models of Deffuant et al. (D), of Krause and Hegselmann (KH), and
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Communities of Practice: Going Virtual
With the current trends towards downsizing, outsourcing and globalisation, modern organisations are reducing the numbers of people they employ. In
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The Effect of Native Language on Internet Usage
Our goal is to distinguish between the following two hypotheses: (A) The Internet will remain disproportionately in English and will,
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Dubious Deductions from AGN Survey Data
The participants in this meeting are almost all carrying out the hard work of making many different types of AGN
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Scalar mesostatic field with regard for gravitational effects
(Foreword by translator.) The aim of present translation is to clarify the historically important question who was the pioneer in
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Communities of Practice in the Distributed International Environment
Modern commercial organisations are facing pressures which have caused them to lose personnel. When they lose people, they also lose
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The doomsday argument and the number of possible observers
If the human race comes to an end relatively shortly, then we have been born at a fairly typical time
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Theoretical confirmation of Feynman's Hypothesis on the creation of circular vortices in superfluid helium
The changes observed in the topology of superfluid helium vortices have intrigued people for some time now [1]. These vortices
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