Continuous-time average-preserving opinion dynamics with opinion-dependent communications

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DOI10.1137/090766188zbMATH Open1213.93008arXiv0907.4662OpenAlexW2022149728MaRDI QIDQ3083262FDOQ3083262


Authors: Vincent D. Blondel, Julien M. Hendrickx, John N. Tsitsiklis Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 21 March 2011

Published in: SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study a simple continuous-time multi-agent system related to Krause's model of opinion dynamics: each agent holds a real value, and this value is continuously attracted by every other value differing from it by less than 1, with an intensity proportional to the difference. We prove convergence to a set of clusters, with the agents in each cluster sharing a common value, and provide a lower bound on the distance between clusters at a stable equilibrium, under a suitable notion of multi-agent system stability. To better understand the behavior of the system for a large number of agents, we introduce a variant involving a continuum of agents. We prove, under some conditions, the existence of a solution to the system dynamics, convergence to clusters, and a non-trivial lower bound on the distance between clusters. Finally, we establish that the continuum model accurately represents the asymptotic behavior of a system with a finite but large number of agents.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0907.4662




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