Multidimensional Friedkin-Johnsen model with increasing stubbornness in social networks (Q6199792)

The paper studies multidimensional Friedkin-Johnsen model with increasing stubbornness in social networks. Based on theoretical and experimental analyses, this paper examines a vector opinion based Friedkin-Johnsen model with increasing stubbornness, where the stubborn agents are defined as agents who gradually reduce their trust in others during the opinion evolution. The paper derives some convergence properties to guarantee that the model converges to a certain position ultimately. Using the leader and local leader, the consensus conditions for different situations are presented. Several random experiments are conducted using two types of artificial networks to investigate the influence of some parameters on the proposed model.