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We study a continuous-time version of the Hegselmann-Krause model describing the opinion dynamics of interacting agents subject to random perturbations. Mathematically speaking, the opinion of agents is modelled by an interacting particle…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-11-25 Li Chen , Paul Nikolaev , David J. Prömel

We present a general model for opinion dynamics in a social network together with several possibilities for object selections at times when the agents are communicating. We study the limiting behavior of such a dynamics and show that this…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-12-12 Behrouz Touri , Farzad Farnoud , Angelia Neidic , Olgica Milenkovic

This paper is concerned with the probability of consensus in a multivariate, spatially explicit version of the Hegselmann-Krause model for the dynamics of opinions. Individuals are located on the vertices of a finite connected graph…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-04-27 Nicolas Lanchier , Hsin-Lun Li

We present an example of a regular opinion function which, as it evolves in accordance with the discrete-time Hegselmann-Krause bounded confidence dynamics, always retains opinions which are separated by more than two. This confirms a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-03-03 Edvin Wedin , Peter Hegarty

We consider the Hegselmann-Krause model for opinion dynamics and study the evolution of the system under various settings. We first analyze the termination time of the synchronous Hegselmann-Krause dynamics in arbitrary finite dimensions…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Seyed Rasoul Etesami , Tamer Basar

Memory effects play a crucial role in social interactions and decision-making processes. This paper proposes a novel fractional-order bounded confidence opinion dynamics model to characterize the memory effects in system states. Building…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-06-06 Meiru Jiang , Wei Su , Guojian Ren , Yongguang Yu

We study a discrete-time consensus model in which agents iteratively update their states through interactions on a dynamic social network. At each step, a single agent is selected asynchronously and averages the values of its current…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Hsin-Lun Li

We study a model for social influence in which the agents' opinion is a continuous variable [G. Weisbuch et al., Complexity \textbf{7}, 2, 55 (2002)]. The convergent opinion adjustment process takes place as a result of random binary…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. F. Laguna , Guillermo Abramson , Damian H. Zanette

We perform a detailed study of the Hegselmann-Krause bounded confidence opinion dynamics model with heterogeneous confidence $\varepsilon_i$ drawn from uniform distributions in different intervals $[\varepsilon_l, \varepsilon_u]$. The phase…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-05-22 Hendrik Schawe , Laura Hernández

Recently, significant attention has been dedicated to the models of opinion dynamics in which opinions are described by real numbers, and agents update their opinions synchronously by averaging their neighbors' opinions. The neighbors of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2011-04-08 Anahita Mirtabatabaei , Francesco Bullo

We study the convergence properties of Social Hegselmann-Krause dynamics, a {variant} of the Hegselmann-Krause (HK) model of opinion dynamics where a physical connectivity graph that accounts for the extrinsic factors that could prevent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-10 Rohit Parasnis , Massimo Franceschetti , Behrouz Touri

This report studies a continuous-time version of the well-known Hegselmann-Krause model of opinion dynamics with bounded confidence. As the equations of this model have discontinuous right-hand side, we study their Krasovskii solutions. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-11-18 Francesca Ceragioli , Paolo Frasca

We present a model of opinion dynamics in which agents adjust continuous opinions as a result of random binary encounters whenever their difference in opinion is below a given threshold. High thresholds yield convergence of opinions towards…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Gerard Weisbuch , Guillaume Deffuant , Frederic Amblard , Jean Pierre Nadal

Hegselmann--Krause models are localized, distributed averaging dynamics on spatial data. A key aspect of these dynamics is that they lead to cluster formation, which has important applications in geographic information systems, dynamic…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-08-14 Partha S. Dey , S. Rasoul Etesami , Aditya S. Gopalan

In this paper, we analyze a Hegselmann-Krause opinion formation model with time-variable time delay and prove that, if the influence function is always positive, then there is exponential convergence to consensus without requiring any…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-11 Elisa Continelli , Cristina Pignotti

The Hegselmann-Krause (HK) model is a wellknown opinion dynamics, attracting a significant amount of interest from a number of fields. However, the heterogeneous HK model is difficult to analyze - even the most basic property of convergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-24 Ge Chen , Wei Su , Songyuan Ding , Yiguang Hong

Opinion dynamics is of paramount importance as it provides insights into the complex dynamics of opinion propagation and social relationship adjustment. It is assumed in most of the previous works that social relationships evolve much…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-04-05 Xunlong Wang , Bin Wu

Unlike many complex networks studied in the literature, social networks rarely exhibit unanimous behavior, or consensus. This requires a development of mathematical models that are sufficiently simple to be examined and capture, at the same…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-10-16 Sergey E. Parsegov , Anton V. Proskurnikov , Roberto Tempo , Noah E. Friedkin

Populations of replicating entities frequently experience sudden or cyclical changes in environment. We explore the implications of this phenomenon via a environmental switching parameter in several common evolutionary dynamics models…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2013-06-12 Marc Harper , Dashiell Fryer , Andrew Vlasic

We study the Hegselmann-Krause model of opinion dynamics on sparse, unbiased networks generated via Wilson's algorithm, unveiling how network connectivity and confidence bounds jointly determine collective behavior. By systematically…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-07-22 Paolo Molignini