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In this work, we investigate interactions that simultaneously order a system locally, while keeping it globally disordered. The study is done in the context of the emergence of diversity in opinion propagation models with interactions…

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Public opinion is subject to peer interaction via social networks and external pressure from the media, advertising, and other actors. In this paper, we study the interaction between external and peer influence on the stochastic opinion…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-07-31 Niels Van Santen , Jan Ryckebusch , Luis E. C. Rocha

We study the contrarian voter model for opinion formation in a society under the influence of an external oscillating propaganda and stochastic noise. Each agent of the population can hold one of two possible opinions on a given issue…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-08-25 M. Cecilia Gimenez , Luis Reinaudi , Federico Vazquez

This paper considers the consensus problem of a novel opinion dynamics model with group pressure and self-confidence. Different with the most existing paper, the influence of friends of friends in a social network is taken into account,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Wenjuan Wang , Zhongmei Wang , Xinmin Song

When opinion spread is studied, peer pressure is often modeled by interactions of more than two individuals (higher-order interactions). In our work, we introduce a two-layer random hypergraph model, in which hyperedges represent households…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Ágnes Backhausz , Villő Csiszár , Balázs Csegő Kolok , Damján Tárkányi , András Zempléni

We introduce multi-population opinion dynamics models linked to the bounded confidence model, aiming to explore how interactions between individuals contribute to the emergence of consensus, polarization, or fragmentation. Existing models…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-11-29 Tigran Bakaryan , Yuliang Gu , Naira Hovakimyan , Tarek Abdelzaher , Christian Lebiere

We introduce a new opinion dynamics model where a group of agents holds two kinds of opinions: inherent and declared. Each agent's inherent opinion is fixed and unobservable by the other agents. At each time step, agents broadcast their…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-04 Ali Jadbabaie , Anuran Makur , Elchanan Mossel , Rabih Salhab

In this paper we study the impact of active participation -- or deliberately seeking out other agents with an aim to convince them -- on the dynamics of consensus formation. For this purpose, we propose an adaptive network model in which…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-06-04 Markus Brede

The bounded confidence model represents a widely adopted framework for modeling opinion dynamics wherein actors have a continuous-valued opinion and interact and approach their positions in the opinion space only if their opinions are…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-11-22 Irene Ferri , Emanuele Cozzo , Aleix Nicolas-Olive , Albert Diaz-Guilera , Luce Prignano

The work investigates the influence of leader's strategy on opinion formation in artificial networked societies. The strength of the social influence is assumed to be dictated by distance from one agent to another, as well as individual…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Pawel Sobkowicz

This paper aims to investigate the impact of interference in social network algorithms via user-bot interactions, focusing on the Stochastic Bounded Confidence Model (SBCM). This paper explores two approaches: positioning bots controlled by…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Farbod Siahkali , Saba Samadi , Hamed Kebriaei

Recently, social phenomena have received a lot of attention not only from social scientists, but also from physicists, mathematicians and computer scientists, in the emerging interdisciplinary field of complex system science. Opinion…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-05-23 Alina Sîrbu , Vittorio Loreto , Vito D. P. Servedio , Francesca Tria

We investigate the effects of external and autonomous global interaction fields on an adaptive network of social agents with an opinion formation dynamics based on a simple imitation rule. We study the competition between global fields and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-09-07 Mario G. Cosenza , José L. Herrera-Diestra

A way to simulate the basic interactions between two individuals with different opinions, in the context of strategic game theory, is proposed. Various games are considered, which produce different kinds of opinion formation dynamics.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-13 Alessandro Di Mare , Vito Latora

The Hegselmann-Krause system (HK system for short) is one of the most popular models for the dynamics of opinion formation in multiagent systems. Agents are modeled as points in opinion space, and at every time step, each agent moves to the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-06 Arnab Bhattacharyya , Kirankumar Shiragur

Online social networks have dramatically altered the landscape of public discourse, creating both opportunities for enhanced civic participation and risks of deepening social divisions. Prevalent approaches to studying online polarization…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-06-12 Tim Donkers , Jürgen Ziegler

Opinion dynamics models how the publicly expressed opinions of users in a social network coevolve according to their neighbors as well as their own intrinsic opinion. Motivated by the real-world manipulation of social networks during the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Akhil Jalan , Marios Papachristou

A recent line of work studies models of opinion exchange where agent opinions about $d$ topics are tracked simultaneously. The opinions are represented as vectors on the unit $(d-1)$-sphere, and the update rule is based on the overall…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Abdou Majeed Alidou , Júlia Baligács , Jan Hązła

Online social media platforms enable influencers to distribute content and quickly capture audience reactions, significantly shaping their promotional strategies and advertising agreements. Understanding how sentiment dynamics and emotional…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Yulong He , Anton V. Proskurnikov , Artem Sedakov

In this paper we propose and investigate a multi-dimensional opinion dynamics model where people are characterised by both opinions and importance weights across these opinions. Opinion changes occur through binary interactions, with a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-01-12 Hanna Bartel , Martin Burger , Marie-Therese Wolfram