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The Sound of Silence: Minorities, Abstention and Democracy
Entropy, 2021 Despite the existence of an extensive literature, no definitive conclusion seems to emerge on the extent to which minorities are guaranteed by democratic rules in political systems.
Alessio Emanuele Biondo +2 more
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Dynamical model for competing opinions [PDF]
Physical Review E, 2012 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 time it interacts with another agent who has a different opinion.
Souza, S. R., Goncalves, S.
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Benchmarking Cost-Effective Opinion Injection Strategies in Complex Networks
Mathematics, 2022 Inferring the diffusion mechanisms in complex networks is of outstanding interest since it enables better prediction and control over information dissemination, rumors, innovation, and even infectious outbreaks.
Alexandru Topîrceanu
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On Symmetric Continuum Opinion Dynamics [PDF]
SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, 2016 This paper investigates the asymptotic behavior of some common opinion dynamic models in a continuum of agents. We show that as long as the interactions among the agents are symmetric, the distribution of the agents' opinion converges. We also investigate whether convergence occurs in a stronger sense than merely in distribution, namely, whether the ...
Hendrickx, Julien M., Olshevsky, Alex
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Opinion particles: Classical physics and opinion dynamics [PDF]
Physics Letters A, 2015 19 pages, 1 ...
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Opinion competition dynamics on multiplex networks
New Journal of Physics, 2017 Multilayer and multiplex networks represent a good proxy for the description of social phenomena where social structure is important and can have different origins. Here, we propose a model of opinion competition where individuals are organized according
R Amato +3 more
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Polarized Ukraine 2014: opinion and territorial split demonstrated with the bounded confidence XY model, parametrized by Twitter data [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2018 Multiple countries have recently experienced extreme political polarization, which, in some cases, led to escalation of hate crime, violence and political instability.
Maksym Romenskyy +3 more
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Modeling and Analysis of Social Phenomena: Challenges and Possible Research Directions
Entropy, 2022 This opening editorial aims to interest researchers and encourage novel research in the closely related fields of sociophysics and computational social science.
Federico Vazquez
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The Euler-Equation Approach in Average-Oriented Opinion Dynamics †
Mathematics, 2020 We consider the models of average-oriented opinion dynamics. An opinion about an event is distributed among the agents of a social network. There are an optimization problem and two game-theoretical models when players as centers of influence aim to make
Vladimir Mazalov, Elena Parilina
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Managing consensus based on community classification in opinion dynamics
Networks and Heterogeneous Media, 2023 Opinion dynamics in social networks are fast becoming an essential instrument for concentrating on the effect of individual choices on external public information.
Yuntian Zhang +4 more
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