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The Hegselmann-Krause (HK) model allows one to characterize the continuous change of agents' opinions with the bounded confidence threshold $\varepsilon$. To consider the heterogeneity of agents in characteristics, we study the HK model on…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-02-05 Yueying Zhu , Jian Jiang , Wei Li

In this article we investigate the phase transition phenomena that occur in a model of self-organisation through body-attitude coordination. Here, the body-attitude of an agent is modelled by a rotation matrix in $\mathbb{R}^3$ as in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-24 Pierre Degond , Antoine Diez , Amic Frouvelle , Sara Merino-Aceituno

Mean field games and controls involve guiding the behavior of large populations of interacting agents, where each individual's influence on the group is negligible but collectively impacts overall dynamics. Hybrid systems integrate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-17 Tejaswi K. C. , Taeyoung Lee

The dynamics of competing opinions in social network play an important role in society, with many applications in diverse social contexts as consensus, elections, morality and so on. Here we study a model of interacting agents connected in…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-09-29 Antonio Mihara , Anderson A. Ferreira , André C. R. Martins , Fernando F. Ferreira

This paper develops a game-theoretic model and an agent-based model to study group formation driven by resource pooling, spatial cohesion, and heterogeneity. We focus on cross-sector partnerships (CSPs) involving public, private, and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Chenlan Wang , Jimin Han , Diana Jue-Rajasingh

An open question in the study of emergent behaviour in multi-agent Bayesian systems is the relationship, if any, between individual and collective inference. In this paper we explore the correspondence between generative models that exist…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-07-15 Conor Heins , Brennan Klein , Daphne Demekas , Miguel Aguilera , Christopher Buckley

We introduce a class of 1D models mimicking a single-lane bridge with two junctions and two particle species driven in opposite directions. The model exhibits spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) for a range of injection/extraction rates. In…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-04-26 Vladislav Popkov , Martin R. Evans , David Mukamel

TheMinority Game (MG) has become a paradigm to probe complex social and economical phenomena where adaptive agents compete for a limited resource, and it finds applications in statistical and nonlinear physics as well. In the traditional MG…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2012-04-16 Zi-Gang Huang , Ji-Qiang Zhang , Jia-Qi Dong , Liang Huang , Ying-Cheng Lai

From bird flocks and fish schools to migrating cell sheets, collective motion is a ubiquitous biological phenomenon that inspires quantitative modeling through self-propelled particle (SPP) frameworks. Conventional SPP models prescribe…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-15 Y. Kikuchi , M. Iwamoto

This article proposes a fundamental methodological shift in the modelling of policy interventions for sustainability transitions in order to account for complexity (e.g. self-reinforcing mechanism arising from multi-agent interactions) and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-03-23 J. -F. Mercure , H. Pollitt , A. M. Bassi , J. E Viñuales , N. R. Edwards

Empirical data on the dynamics of human face-to-face interactions across a variety of social venues have recently revealed a number of context-independent structural and temporal properties of human contact networks. This universality…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-07-13 Michele Starnini , Andrea Baronchelli , Romualdo Pastor-Satorras

Living organisms process information to interact and adapt to their changing environment with the goal of finding food, mates or averting hazards. The structure of their niche has profound repercussions by both selecting their internal…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-06-07 Hannes Hornischer , Stephan Herminghaus , Marco G. Mazza

We analyze the dynamics of multi-agent collective behavior models and their control theoretical properties. We first derive a large population limit to parabolic diffusive equations. We also show that the non-local transport equations…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-02-12 Umberto Biccari , Dongnam Ko , Enrique Zuazua

The cognitive process of opinion formation is often characterized by stubbornness or resistance of agents to changes of opinion. To capture such a feature we introduce a constant latency time in the standard voter model of opinion dynamics:…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-08-27 Giovanni Palermo , Anna Mancini , Antonio Desiderio , Riccardo Di Clemente , Giulio Cimini

We here discuss a model of continuous 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. We concentrate on the version of the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Gerard Weisbuch , Guillaume Deffuant , Frederic Amblard

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

A hybrid model for opinion dynamics in complex multi-agent networks is introduced, wherein some continuous-valued agents average neighbors' opinions to update their own, while other discrete-valued agents use stochastic copying and voting…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-04-01 Mengran Xue , Sandip Roy

We consider the ferromagnetic large-$q$ state Potts model in complex evolving networks, which is equivalent to an optimal cooperation problem, in which the agents try to optimize the total sum of pair cooperation benefits and the supports…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-08-09 M. Karsai , J-Ch. Anglès d'Auriac , F. Iglói

We develop a formalism to study linearized perturbations around the equilibria of a pure exchange economy. With the use of mean field theory techniques, we derive equations for the flow of products in an economy driven by heterogeneous…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2015-05-13 Samuel E. Vazquez , Simone Severini

A statistical theory of the mean field is developed. It is based on the proposition that the mean field can be obtained as an energy average. Moreover, it is assumed that the matrix elements of the residual interaction, obtained after the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 R. Caracciolo , A. De Pace , H. Feshbach , A. Molinari