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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

In a social network, individuals express their opinions on several interdependent topics, and therefore the evolution of their opinions on these topics is also mutually dependent. In this work, we propose a differential game model for the…

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The language evaluation information of the interactive group decision method at present is based on the one-dimension language variable. At the same time, multi-attribute group decision making method based on two-dimension linguistic…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Yukun Zhang

Socio-psychological studies have identified a common phenomenon where an individual's public actions do not necessarily coincide with their private opinions, yet most existing models fail to capture the dynamic interplay between these two…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Chen Song , Vladimir Cvetkovic , Rong Su

The superiority and inferiority ranking (SIR) method is a generation of the well-known PROMETHEE method, which can be more efficient to deal with multi-criterion decision making (MCDM) problem. Intuitionistic fuzzy sets (IFSs), as an…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-07-07 Junyi Chai , James N. K. Liu

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

Far beyond its relevance for commercial and political marketings, opinion formation and decision making processes are central for representative democracy, government functioning, and state organization. In the present report, a stochastic…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-10-11 Hugo P. Maia , Silvio C. Ferreira , Marcelo L. Martins

The process of opinion expression and exchange is a critical component of democratic societies. As people interact with large language models (LLMs) in the opinion shaping process different from traditional media, the impacts of LLMs are…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Chao Li , Xing Su , Haoying Han , Cong Xue , Chunmo Zheng , Chao Fan

According to mass media theory, the dissemination of messages and the evolution of opinions in social networks follow a two-step process. First, opinion leaders receive the message from the message sources, and then they transmit their…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Huisheng Wang , Yuejiang Li , Yiqing Lin , H. Vicky Zhao

Understanding the evolution of public opinion is crucial for informed decision-making in various domains, particularly public affairs. The rapid growth of social networks, such as Twitter (now rebranded as X), provides an unprecedented…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Zhiping Xiao , Xinyu Wang , Yifang Qin , Zijie Huang , Mason A. Porter , Yizhou Sun

Explaining black-box model behavior with natural language has achieved impressive results in various NLP tasks. Recent research has explored the utilization of subsequences from the input text as a rationale, providing users with evidence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Yanrui Du , Sendong Zhao , Haochun Wang , Yuhan Chen , Rui Bai , Zewen Qiang , Muzhen Cai , Bing Qin

A long line of work in social psychology has studied variations in people's susceptibility to persuasion -- the extent to which they are willing to modify their opinions on a topic. This body of literature suggests an interesting…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Rediet Abebe , T-H. Hubert Chan , Jon Kleinberg , Zhibin Liang , David Parkes , Mauro Sozio , Charalampos E. Tsourakakis

Human-robot interactive decision-making is increasingly becoming ubiquitous, and trust is an influential factor in determining the reliance on autonomy. However, it is not reasonable to trust systems that are beyond our comprehension, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-16 Daoming Lyu , Fangkai Yang , Hugh Kwon , Wen Dong , Levent Yilmaz , Bo Liu

In this paper, we investigate the role of uninformed individuals in consensus formation within opinion-swarming models for self-propelled particles. The proposed models are inspired by empirical observations in animal swarming, particularly…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-08-12 Gissell Estrada-Rodriguez , Victor Villegas-Morral , Marie-Therese Wolfram

Understanding the dynamics of public opinion evolution on online social platforms is crucial for understanding influence mechanisms and the provenance of information. Traditional influence analysis is typically divided into qualitative…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Bailu Jin , Weisi Guo

Designing adaptive mechanisms to align individual and collective interests remains a central challenge in artificial social intelligence. Existing methods often struggle with modeling heterogeneous agents possessing persistent latent traits…

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We suggest a model of a multi-agent society of decision makers taking decisions being based on two criteria, one is the utility of the prospects and the other is the attractiveness of the considered prospects. The model is the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-01-17 V. I. Yukalov , E. P. Yukalova , D. Sornette

Subjective Logic (SL) is one of well-known belief models that can explicitly deal with uncertain opinions and infer unknown opinions based on a rich set of operators of fusing multiple opinions. Due to high simplicity and applicability, SL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Xujiang Zhao , Feng Chen , Jin-Hee Cho

Scientific progress increasingly relies on effective collaboration among researchers, a dynamic that large language models (LLMs) have only begun to emulate. While recent LLM-based scientist agents show promise in autonomous scientific…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Weilun Yu , Shixiang Tang , Yonggui Huang , Nanqing Dong , Li Fan , Honggang Qi , Wei Liu , Xiaoli Diao , Xi Chen , Wanli Ouyang

In the digital age of information overload and uncertainty, the authors propose the tDTSW model based on fuzzy logic to navigate governance complexities. This model transcends binary thinking, analyzes democracy, transparency, and social…

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