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We study consumption behaviour in systems with heterogeneous interacting agents. Two different models are introduced, respectively with long and short range interactions among agents. At any time step an agent decides whether or not to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-12-02 Giulia Iori , Vassilis Koulovassilopoulos

We study a coevolving nonlinear voter model describing the coupled evolution of the states of the nodes and the network topology. Nonlinearity of the interaction is measured by a parameter q. The network topology changes by rewiring links…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-10-10 Byungjoon Min , Maxi San Miguel

Homophily and social influence are the fundamental mechanisms that drive the evolution of attitudes, beliefs and behaviour within social groups. Homophily relates the similarity between pairs of individuals' attitudinal states to their…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-12 Jonathan Ward , Peter Grindrod

Consider an undirected graph G, representing a social network, where each node is blue or red, corresponding to positive or negative opinion on a topic. In the voter model, in discrete time rounds, each node picks a neighbour uniformly at…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Abhiram Manohara , Ahad N. Zehmakan

We consider a model of binary opinion dynamics where one opinion is inherently 'superior' than the other and social agents exhibit a 'bias' towards the superior alternative. Specifically, it is assumed that an agent updates its choice to…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-05-01 Arpan Mukhopadhyay

We study the active to absorbing phase transition (AAPT) in a simple two-component model system for a species and its mutant. We uncover the nontrivial critical scaling behavior and weak dynamic scaling near the AAPT that shows the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-10-07 Niladri Sarkar

Understanding how sustainable behaviors spread within heterogeneous societies requires the integration of behavioral data, social influence mechanisms, and structured approaches to control. In this paper, we propose a data-driven…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Martina Alutto , Sofia Bellotti , Fabrizio Dabbene , Chiara Ravazzi

It is shown that under certain conditions it is possible to model a complex system in a way that leads to results that do not depend on system size. As an example of complex system an innovation diffusion model is considered. In that model…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-07-28 Carlos E. Laciana , Gustavo Pereyra , Santiago L. Rovere

In nonlinear voter models the transitions between two states depend in a nonlinear manner on the frequencies of these states in the neighborhood. We investigate the role of these nonlinearities on the global outcome of the dynamics for a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-04-05 Frank Schweitzer , Laxmidhar Behera

We study a nonlinear coevolving voter model with triadic closure local rewiring. We find three phases with different topological properties and configuration in the steady state: absorbing consensus phase with a single component, absorbing…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-12-03 Tomasz Raducha , Byungjoon Min , Maxi San Miguel

We study the behavior of a generalized consensus dynamics on a temporal network of interactions, the activity driven network with attractiveness. In this temporal network model, agents are endowed with an intrinsic activity $a$, ruling the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-08-15 Antoine Moinet , Alain Barrat , Romualdo Pastor Satorras

Neutral models, in which individual agents with equal fitness undergo a birth-death-mutation process, are very popular in population genetics and community ecology. Usually these models are applied to populations and communities with…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2016-06-10 Matan Danino , Yahav Shem-Tov , Nadav M. Shnerb

A microscopic model of adsorption in cluster forming systems with competing interaction is considered. The adsorption process is described by the master equation and modelled by a kinetic Monte Carlo method. The evolution of the particle…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-09-07 E. Bildanau , V. Vikhrenko

We introduce a model of negotiation dynamics whose aim is that of mimicking the mechanisms leading to opinion and convention formation in a population of individuals. The negotiation process, as opposed to ``herding-like'' or ``bounded…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-11-06 A. Baronchelli , L. Dall'Asta , A. Barrat , V. Loreto

A broad set of empirical phenomenon in the study of social, economic and machine behaviour can be modelled as complex systems with averaging dynamics. However many of these models naturally result in consensus or consensus-like outcomes. In…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Orowa Sikder

Progress in theoretical physics is often made by the investigation of toy models, the model organisms of physics, which provide benchmarks for new methodologies. For complex systems, one such model is the adaptive voter model. Despite its…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-10-24 Holly Silk , Güven Demirel , Martin Homer , Thilo Gross

Models in evolutionary game theory traditionally assume symmetric interactions in homogeneous environments. Here, we consider populations evolving in a heterogeneous environment, which consists of patches of different qualities that are…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2018-12-11 Christoph Hauert , Camille Saade , Alex McAvoy

Here we study the emergence of spontaneous leadership in large populations. In standard models of opinion dynamics, herding behavior is only obeyed at the local scale due to the interaction of single agents with their neighbors; while at…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-11 Guillem Mosquera-Donate , Marian Boguna

The biological requirements for an ecosystem to develop and maintain species diversity are in general unknown. Here we consider a model ecosystem of sessile and mutually excluding organisms competing for space [Mathiesen et al. Phys. Rev.…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2012-09-10 Namiko Mitarai , Joachim Mathiesen , Kim Sneppen

A random walk in $Z_+^2$ spatially homogeneous in the interior, absorbed at the axes, starting from an arbitrary point $(i_0,j_0)$ and with step probabilities drawn on Figure 1 is considered. The trivariate generating function of…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-07-04 Irina Kurkova , Kilian Raschel