Toward Formalizing Fashion Theory

Summary

The authors develop a theoretical framework of the fashion process and a mathematical model of that framework that can be represented as a system of difference equations and the dynamic implications of several interpersonal influence patterns assumed in previous research are derived mathematically.

Keywords

Process (computing), Computer science, Interpersonal communication, Interpersonal influence, Theoretical computer science

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