The roundtable: an agent-based model of conversation dynamics

The authors would like to acknowledge the great hospitality and support of the Santa Fe Institute during the Complex Systems Summer School '09, funded by the SFI and the National Science Foundation. Special thanks go to Dan Rockmore and Tom Carter. The authors also thank Jordi Luque and Andrea Firrincieli for fruitful discussions. LL acknowledges financial support from Spanish grant FIS2009-13690. Finally, the authors would like to thank Chuck Brown for being a perpetual source of inspiration and funk.

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