Birth and Death in a Continuous Opinion Dynamics Model. The consensus case
Physics and Society
2008-07-28 v1
Abstract
We here discuss the process of opinion formation in an open community where agents are made to interact and consequently update their beliefs. New actors (birth) are assumed to replace individuals that abandon the community (deaths). This dynamics is simulated in the framework of a simplified model that accounts for mutual affinity between agents. A rich phenomenology is presented and discussed with reference to the original (closed group) setting. Numerical findings are supported by analytical calculations.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0807.4062,
title = {Birth and Death in a Continuous Opinion Dynamics Model. The consensus case},
author = {Timoteo Carletti and Duccio Fanelli and Alessio Guarino and Franco Bagnoli and Andrea Guazzini},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0807.4062},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
13 pages, 6 figures