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In this work we study opinion formation on a fully-connected population participating of a public debate with two distinct choices, where the agents may adopt three different attitudes (favorable to either one choice or to the other, or…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-01-28 Nuno Crokidakis , Victor H. Blanco , Celia Anteneodo

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

A model for the joint evolution of opinions and how much the agents trust each other is presented. The model is built using the framework of the Continuous Opinions and Discrete Actions (CODA) model. Instead of a fixed probability that the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-11-19 André C. R. Martins

In this manuscript, we introduce and study a variant of the agent-based opinion dynamics proposed in a recent work [8], within the framework of an interacting multi-agent system, where agents are assumed to interact with each other and…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-30 Fei Cao , Roberto Cortez

We study the consensus formation for an agents based model, generalizing that originally proposed by Krause \cite{Kr}, by allowing the communication channels between any couple of agents to be switched on or off randomly, at each time step,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Gianfelice Michele , Giuseppe Scola

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

Advertisement and propaganda have changed continuously in the past decades, mainly due to the people's interactions at online platforms and social networks, and operate nowadays reaching a highly specific online audience instead targeting…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-06-28 Fabricio L. Forgerini , Nuno Crokidakis , Marcio A. V. Carvalho

Axelrod model is an opinion dynamics model such that each agent on a square lattice has a finite number of possible nominal opinions on a finite number of issues that are usually called features in the field. Moreover, its dynamics between…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-05-07 X. Zou , H. F. Chau

Classic models on opinion dynamics usually focus on a group of agents forming their opinions interactively over single issue. Yet generally consensus can not be achieved over single issue when agents are not completely open to interpersonal…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-08-15 Ye Tian , Long Wang

Considerable effort using techniques developed in statistical physics has been aimed at numerical simulations of agent-based opinion models and analysis of their results. Such work has elucidated how various rules for interacting agents can…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-08-06 Moorad Alexanian , Dylan McNamara

A model where agents show discrete behavior regarding their actions, but have continuous opinions that are updated by interacting with other agents is presented. This new updating rule is applied to both the voter and Sznajd models for…

Physics and Society · Physics 2008-08-11 Andre C. R. Martins

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 study a tractable opinion dynamics model that generates long-run disagreements and persistent opinion fluctuations. Our model involves an inhomogeneous stochastic gossip process of continuous opinion dynamics in a society consisting of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-12-03 Daron Acemoglu , Giacomo Como , Fabio Fagnani , Asuman Ozdaglar

Networked multi-agent dynamical systems have been used to model how individual opinions evolve over time due to the opinions of other agents in the network. Particularly, such a model has been used to study how a planning agent can be used…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Sheryl Paul , Leslie Cruz Juarez , Jyotirmoy V. Deshmukh , Ketan Savla

We study the Galam majority rule dynamics with contrarian behavior and an oscillating external propaganda, in a population of agents that can adopt one of two possible opinions. In an iteration step, a random agent interacts with other…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-09-13 M. Cecilia Gimenez , Luis Reinaudi , Serge Galam , Federico Vazquez

We study the evolution of opinions inside a population of interacting large language models (LLMs). Every LLM needs to decide how much funding to allocate to an item with three initial possibilities: full, partial, or no funding. We…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Pedro Cisneros-Velarde

A simple model of opinion formation dynamics in which binary-state agents make up their opinions due to the influence of agents in a local neighborhood is studied using different network topologies. Each agent uses two different strategies,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. O. Sousa , J. R. Sanchez

The dynamics of opinion formation in large groups of people is a complex non-linear phenomenon whose investigation is just at the beginning. Both collective behaviour and personal view play an important role in this mechanism. In the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-02-17 M. Bartolozzi , B. Leinweber , A. W. Thomas

Opinion dynamics is nowadays a very common field of research. In this article we formulate and then study a novel, namely strategic perspective on such dynamics: There are the usual normal agents that update their opinions, for instance…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-09 Rainer Hegselmann , Stefan König , Sascha Kurz , Christoph Niemann , Jörg Rambau

In majority dynamics, agents located at the vertices of an undirected simple graph update their binary opinions synchronously by adopting those of the majority of their neighbors. On infinite unimodular transitive graphs (e.g., Cayley…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-04-24 Itai Benjamini , Siu-On Chan , Ryan O'Donnell , Omer Tamuz , Li-Yang Tan