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The focus of this work is on designing influencing strategies to shape the collective opinion of a network of individuals. We consider a variant of the voter model where opinions evolve in one of two ways. In the absence of external…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Anmol Gupta , Sharayu Moharir , Neeraja Sahasrabudhe

Motivated by the literature on opinion dynamics and evolutionary game theory, we propose a novel mathematical framework to model the intertwined coevolution of opinions and decision-making in a complex social system. In the proposed…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Lorenzo Zino , Mengbin Ye , Ming Cao

The dynamics of political opinion are a critical component of modern society with large-scale implications for the evolution of intra- and international political discourse and policy. Here we utilize recent high-resolution survey data to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-10-15 David Sabin-Miller , Christopher Harding

We study the dynamics of public opinion in a model in which agents change their opinions as a result of random binary encounters if the opinion difference is below their individual thresholds that evolve over time. We ground these…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-12-10 Gani Aldashev , Timoteo Carletti

Digital communication has made the public discourse considerably more complex, and new actors and strategies have emerged as a result of this seismic shift. Aside from the often-studied interactions among individuals during opinion…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-02-01 Luzie Helfmann , Nataša Djurdjevac Conrad , Philipp Lorenz-Spreen , Christof Schütte

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

Investigation of social influence dynamics requires mathematical models that are "simple" enough to admit rigorous analysis, and yet sufficiently "rich" to capture salient features of social groups. Thus, the mechanism of iterative opinion…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-09-20 Anton V. Proskurnikov , Roberto Tempo , Ming Cao , Noah E. Friedkin

We investigate how the overall response to a piece of information (a story or an article) evolves and relaxes as a function of time in social networks like Reddit, Digg and Youtube. This response or popularity is measured in terms of the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-03-20 Rumi Ghosh , Bernardo A. Huberman

Opinions and beliefs determine the evolution of social systems. This is of particular interest in finance, as the increasing complexity of financial systems is coupled with information overload. Opinion formation, therefore, is not always…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2014-08-05 Marco D'Errico , Gulnur Muradoglu , Silvana Stefani , Giovanni Zambruno

The heterogeneity of the influence processes is an important feature of social systems: how we perceive social influence and how we influence other individuals is heavily influenced by our opinion and non-opinion attributes. The latter…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Ivan V. Kozitsin

Scaling limits are analyzed for stochastic continuous opinion dynamics systems, also known as gossip models. In such models, agents update their vector-valued opinion to a convex combination (possibly agent- and opinion-dependent) of their…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-09-23 Giacomo Como , Fabio Fagnani

Opinion dynamics models describe the evolution of behavioral changes within social networks and are essential for informing strategies aimed at fostering positive collective changes, such as climate action initiatives. When applied to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-05-07 Alessia Antelmi , Carmine Spagnuolo , Luca Maria Aiello

We hereby propose a model of opinion dynamics where individuals update their beliefs because of interactions in acquaintances' group. The model exhibit a non trivial behavior that we discuss as a function of the main involved parameters.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2008-08-04 Timoteo Carletti , Simone Righi

In social systems, the evolution of interpersonal appraisals and individual opinions are not independent processes but intertwine with each other. Despite extensive studies on both opinion dynamics and appraisal dynamics separately, no…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-25 Fangzhou Liu , Shaoxuan Cui , Wenjun Mei , Florian Dorfler , Martin Buss

In the age of information abundance, attention is a coveted resource. Social media platforms vigorously compete for users' engagement, influencing the evolution of their opinions on a variety of topics. With recommendation algorithms often…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-10-30 Andrea Somazzi , Giuseppe Maria Ferro , Diego Garlaschelli , Simon Asher Levin

In recent years, opinion dynamics has received an increasing attention, and various models have been introduced and evaluated mainly by simulation. In this study, we introduce and study a dynamical model inspired by the so-called `bounded…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-11-07 Sergei Yu. Pilyugin , M. C. Campi

This article contributes in four ways to the research on time-discrete continuous opinion dynamics with compromising agents. First, communication regimes are introduced as an elementary concept of opinion dynamic models. Second, we develop…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-08-27 Diemo Urbig , Jan Lorenz

We study a model of opinion dynamics introduced by Krause: each agent has an opinion represented by a real number, and updates its opinion by averaging all agent opinions that differ from its own by less than 1. We give a new proof of…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2009-03-13 Vincent D. Blondel , Julien M. Hendrickx , John N. Tsitsiklis

This paper introduces a class of non-linear and continuous-time opinion dynamics model with additive noise and state dependent interaction rates between agents. The model features interaction rates which are proportional to a negative power…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-12-15 Jae Oh Woo , François Baccelli , Sriram Vishwanath

Often exhibiting hierarchical and overlapping structures, communities or modular groups are fundamental and complex in network science. One of the most exploited tools to detect the mesoscopic structure is synchronization. Several phenomena…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-07-05 Ren Ren , Jinliang Shao