Comment on "Mixing beliefs among interacting agents"
Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems
2012-01-10 v1 Probability
Abstract
We comment on the derivation of the main equation in the bounded confidence model of opinion dynamics. In the original work, the equation is derived using an ad-hoc counting method. We point that the original derivation does contain some small mistake. The mistake does not have a large qualitative impact, but it reveals the danger of the ad-hoc counting method. We show how a more systematic approach, which we call micro to macro, can avoid such mistakes, without adding any significant complexity.
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@article{arxiv.1201.1789,
title = {Comment on "Mixing beliefs among interacting agents"},
author = {Javier Gómez-Serrano and Jean-Yves Le Boudec},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1201.1789},
year = {2012}
}
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7 pages