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Opinion and belief dynamics are a central topic in the study of social interactions through dynamical systems. In this work, we study a model where, at each discrete time, all the agents update their opinion as an average of their intrinsic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-05 Javiera Gutiérrez-Ramírez , David Salas , Victor Verdugo

This paper studies the opinion dynamics model recently introduced by Hegselmann and Krause: each agent in a group maintains a real number describing its opinion; and each agent updates its opinion by averaging all other opinions that are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-04-08 Anahita Mirtabatabaei , Francesco Bullo

A new agent-based, bounded-confidence model for discrete one-dimensional opinion dynamics is presented. The agents interact if their opinions do not differ more than a tolerance parameter. In pairwise interactions, one of the pair, randomly…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2013-02-19 M. Kaan Öztürk

This paper examines the interplay of opinion exchange dynamics and communication network formation. An opinion formation procedure is introduced which is based on an abstract representation of opinions as $k$--dimensional bit--strings.…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2014-10-24 S. Banisch , T. Araújo , J. Louçã

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

The Naming Game is a classic model for studying the emergence and evolution of language within a population. In this paper, we extend the traditional Naming Game model to encompass multiple committed opinions and investigate the system…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Cheng Ma , Brendan Cross , Gyorgy Korniss , Boleslaw K. Szymanski

We propose an opinion dynamics model in which agents gradually increase their own self-confidence while interacting with each other. The relations between the newly proposed model and existing works of social learning, inertial opinion…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-20 Chu Wang

Recent years saw an increased interest in modeling and understanding the mechanisms of opinion and innovation spread through human networks. Using analysis of real-world social data, researchers are able to gain a better understanding of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-03-29 Ajay Saini , Natasha Markuzon

This paper investigates a model of opinion formation on an adaptive social network, consisting of a system of coupled ordinary differential equations for individuals' opinions and corresponding network edge weights. A key driver of the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-02-04 Andrew Nugent , Carmen Calatayud Fernandez , Susana N. Gomes

There are numerous examples of societies with extremely stable mix of contrasting opinions. We argue that this stability is a result of an interplay between society network topology adjustment and opinion changing processes. To support this…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-13 Pawel Sobkowicz

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 a class of discrete-time multi-agent systems modelling opinion dynamics with decaying confidence. We consider a network of agents where each agent has an opinion. At each time step, the agents exchange their opinion with their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-06-03 Irinel Constantin Morarescu , Antoine Girard

This paper is about a new model of opinion dynamics with opinion-dependent connectivity. We assume that agents update their opinions asynchronously and that each agent's new opinion depends on the opinions of the $k$ agents that are closest…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Wilbert Samuel Rossi , Paolo Frasca

We investigate majority-vote opinion dynamics on Geometric Inhomogeneous Random Graphs (GIRGs), a powerful model for spatial complex networks. In contrast to classic coarsening dynamics where a single opinion typically achieves global…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Mats Bierwirth , Johannes Lengler

We here propose a model to simulate the process of opinion formation, which accounts for the mutual affinity between interacting agents. Opinion and affinity evolve self-consistently, manifesting a highly non trivial interplay. A continuous…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-09-29 Franco Bagnoli , Timoteo Carletti , Duccio Fanelli , Alessio Guarino , Andrea Guazzini

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

In human societies opinion formation is mediated by social interactions, consequently taking place on a network of relationships and at the same time influencing the structure of the network and its evolution. To investigate this…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-05-22 Gerardo Iñiguez , János Kertész , Kimmo K. Kaski , R. A. Barrio

Understanding the mutual influence between social behavior and physical health is crucial for designing effective epidemic mitigation strategies. Individual interactions drive the evolution of opinions, which in turn shape how infectious…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-05-15 Abu Safyan Ali , Elisa Calzola , Giacomo Dimarco , Lorenzo Pareschi , Thomas Rey

We propose an opinion model based on agents located at the vertices of a regular lattice. Each agent has an independent opinion (among an arbitrary, but fixed, number of choices) and its own degree of conviction. The latter changes every…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-05-29 S. R. Souza , S. Goncalves

We introduce kinetic models to simulate epidemic spread while accounting for individuals' opinions on protective behaviors. Opinion exchanges occur on a social network represented by a graphon, leading to scenarios with or without opinion…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Andrea Bondesan , Jacopo Borsotti , Mattia Fontana