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Individuals who interact with each other in social networks often exchange ideas and influence each other's opinions. A popular approach to study the spread of opinions on networks is by examining bounded-confidence models (BCMs), in which…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-11-30 Unchitta Kan , Michelle Feng , Mason A. Porter

Models of opinion dynamics aim to capture how individuals' opinions change when they interact with each other. One well-known model of opinion dynamics is the Deffuant--Weisbuch (DW) model, which is a type of bounded-confidence model (BCM).…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-05-25 Leila Thompsky , Yuexuan Yolanda Wu , Mason A. Porter , Jiajie Luo

People's opinions on a wide range of topics often evolve over time through their interactions with others. Models of opinion dynamics primarily focus on one-dimensional opinions, which represent opinions on one topic. However, opinions on…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-09-01 Grace Jingying Li , Jiajie Luo , Weiqi Chu

We generalize bounded-confidence models (BCMs) of opinion dynamics by incorporating neighborhood effects. In a BCM, interacting agents influence each other through dyadic influence if their opinions are sufficiently similar to each other.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-05-23 Sanjukta Krishnagopal , Mason A. Porter

People's opinions evolve over time as they interact with their friends, family, colleagues, and others. In the study of opinion dynamics on networks, one often encodes interactions between people in the form of dyadic relationships, but…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Abigail Hickok , Yacoub Kureh , Heather Z. Brooks , Michelle Feng , Mason A. Porter

Agent-based models of opinion dynamics allow one to examine the spread of opinions between entities and to study phenomena such as consensus, polarization, and fragmentation. By studying a model of opinion dynamics on a social network, one…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-03-22 Grace J. Li , Mason A. Porter

In models of opinion dynamics, agents interact with each other and can change their opinions as a result of those interactions. One type of opinion model is a bounded-confidence model (BCM), in which opinions take continuous values and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-10-27 Weiqi Chu , Mason A Porter

This paper introduces a heterogeneous multidimensional bounded confidence (BC) opinion dynamics with random pairwise interactions, whereby each pair of agents accesses each other's opinions with a specific probability. This revised model is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-05 Jiangjiang Cheng , Ge Chen , Wenjun Mei , Francesco Bullo

Social interactions often occur between three or more agents simultaneously. Examining opinion dynamics on hypergraphs allows one to study the effect of such polyadic interactions on the opinions of agents. In this paper, we consider a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Weiqi Chu , Mason A. Porter

We propose a model coupling the classical opinion dynamics of the bounded confidence model, proposed by Deffuant et al., with an adaptive network forming a community or group structure. At each step, an individual can decide if it changes…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-03-19 F. Gargiulo , S. Huet

Bounded confidence models of opinion dynamics have been actively studied in recent years, in particular, opinion formation and extremism propagation along with other aspects of social dynamics. In this work, after an analysis of limitations…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-27 Evguenii Kurmyshev , Héctor A. Juárez , Ricardo A. González-Silva

This paper presents a theoretical convergence analysis for an opinion-action coevolution model that integrates the opinion updating rule of the Hegselmann-Krause model with a utility-based decision-making mechanism. The model is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-08 Chen Song , Angela Fontan , Rong Su , Julien M. Hendrickx , Vladimir Cvetkovic , Karl H. Johansson

Models of continuous opinion dynamics under bounded confidence have been presented independently by Krause and Hegselmann and by Deffuant et al in 2000. They have raised a fair amount of attention in the communities of social simulation,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2008-03-06 Jan Lorenz

Bounded confidence opinion dynamics model the propagation of information in social networks. However in the existing literature, opinions are only viewed as abstract quantities without semantics rather than as part of a decision-making…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-06-17 Kush R. Varshney

We study a nonlinear bounded-confidence model (BCM) of continuous-time opinion dynamics on networks with both persuadable individuals and zealots. The model is parameterized by a scalar $\gamma$, which controls the steepness of a smooth…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-08-01 Heather Z. Brooks , Philip S. Chodrow , Mason A. Porter

The bounded confidence model of opinion dynamics, introduced by Deffuant et al, is a stochastic model for the evolution of continuous-valued opinions within a finite group of peers. We prove that, as time goes to infinity, the opinions…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-04-19 Javier Gómez-Serrano , Carl Graham , Jean-Yves Le Boudec

Collective opinions affect civic participation, governance, and societal norms. Due to the influence of opinion dynamics, many models of their formation and evolution have been developed. A commonly used approach for the study of opinion…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-01-06 Claudia Kann , Michelle Feng

Models of continuous opinion dynamics under bounded confidence show a sharp transition between a consensus and a polarization phase at a critical global bound of confidence. In this paper, heterogeneous bounds of confidence are studied. The…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-12-07 Jan Lorenz

In this paper, we study the evolution of opinions over social networks with bounded confidence in social cliques. Node initial opinions are independently and identically distributed; at each time step, nodes review the average opinions of a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Jiangbo Zhang , Deming Yuan , Lei Wang , Claudio Altafini , Guodong Shi

Opinion spreading in a society decides the fate of elections, the success of products, and the impact of political or social movements. The model by Hegselmann and Krause is a well-known theoretical model to study such opinion formation…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Petra Berenbrink , Martin Hoefer , Dominik Kaaser , Pascal Lenzner , Malin Rau , Daniel Schmand
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