Characterizing the process of reaching consensus for social systems
Physics and Society
2011-06-30 v1 Social and Information Networks
Abstract
A novel way of characterizing the process of reaching consensus for a social system is given. The foundation of the characterization is based on the theorem which states that the sufficient and necessary condition for a system to reach the state of consensus is the occurrence of communicators, defined as the units of the system that can directly communicate with all the others simultaneously. A model is proposed to illustrate the characterization explicitly. The existence of communicators provides an efficient way for unifying two systems that a state of consensus is guaranteed after the mergence.
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@article{arxiv.1106.5818,
title = {Characterizing the process of reaching consensus for social systems},
author = {Jinn-Wen Wu and Yu-Pin Luo and Ming-Chang Huang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1106.5818},
year = {2011}
}
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5 pages, 3 figures