The role of noise and initial conditions in the asymptotic solution of a bounded confidence, continuous-opinion model

DOI10.1007/S10955-012-0635-2zbMATH Open1269.82038arXiv1208.2618OpenAlexW3103721038MaRDI QIDQ2376044FDOQ2376044

Authors: Adrián Carro, Raúl Toral, Maxi San Miguel 

Publication date: 26 June 2013

Published in: Journal of Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study a model for continuous-opinion dynamics under bounded confidence. In particular, we analyze the importance of the initial distribution of opinions in determining the asymptotic configuration. Thus, we sketch the structure of attractors of the dynamical system, by means of the numerical computation of the time evolution of the agents density. We show that, for a given bound of confidence, a consensus can be encouraged or prevented by certain initial conditions. Furthermore, a noisy perturbation is added to the system with the purpose of modeling the free will of the agents. As a consequence, the importance of the initial condition is partially replaced by that of the statistical distribution of the noise. Nevertheless, we still find evidence of the influence of the initial state upon the final configuration for a short range of the bound of confidence parameter.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1208.2618

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zbMATH Keywords

bounded confidenceopinion dynamicssocial simulationcontinuous opinions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Clustering in the social and behavioral sciences (91C20) Dynamic lattice systems (kinetic Ising, etc.) and systems on graphs in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C20)

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