Bounded confidence model: addressed information maintain diversity of opinions
Abstract
A community of agents is subject to a stream of messages, which are represented as points on a plane of issues. Messages are sent by media and by agents themselves. Messages from media shape the public opinion. They are unbiased, i.e. positive and negative opinions on a given issue appear with equal frequencies. In our previous work, the only criterion to receive a message by an agent is if the distance between this message and the ones received earlier does not exceed the given value of the tolerance parameter. Here we introduce a possibility to address a message to a given neighbour. We show that this option reduces the unanimity effect, what improves the collective performance.
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@article{arxiv.1101.2135,
title = {Bounded confidence model: addressed information maintain diversity of opinions},
author = {Krzysztof Malarz and Krzysztof Kulakowski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1101.2135},
year = {2017}
}
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3 pages, 4 figures, RevTeX 4.1, presented at the 5th Polish Symposium on Econo- and Sociophysics, Nov. 25-27, 2010, Warsaw (PL)