Effects of zealots in protecting social systems against cascading failures

• Main Author: Au, Chun Hin
• Other Authors: XIAO Gaoxi
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2021
• Subjects: Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering::Computer hardware, software and systems
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/149347
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Zealots within social network are fanatical individuals whose opinions remain unwavering regardless of social pressure from others or when they are presented with information that conflicts with their personal views and opinions. In this project, we wished to determine how the presence of zealots ma...