Beyond networks: opinion formation in triplet-based populations

DOI10.1098/RSTA.2009.0066zbMATH Open1185.91149arXiv0810.4118OpenAlexW3102671303WikidataQ51810352 ScholiaQ51810352MaRDI QIDQ3559923FDOQ3559923

Authors: D. H. Zanette 

Publication date: 8 May 2010

Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study a process of opinion formation in a population of agents whose interaction pattern is defined on the basis of randomly distributed groups of three agents, or triplets -in contrast to networks, which are defined on the basis of agent pairs. Results for the time needed to reach full consensus are compared between a triplet-based structure with a given number of triplets and a random network with the same number of triangles. The full-consensus time in the triplet structure is systematically lower than in the network. This discrepancy can be ascribed to differences in the shape of the probability distribution for the number of triplets and triangles per agent in each interaction pattern.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0810.4118

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zbMATH Keywords

networksagent-based modelsopinion dynamicsmultiplet structures

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Models of societies, social and urban evolution (91D10) Social networks; opinion dynamics (91D30) Small world graphs, complex networks (graph-theoretic aspects) (05C82) Applications of statistical and quantum mechanics to economics (econophysics) (91B80)

Cites Work

• Complex networks: structure and dynamics

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• Kinetic equations for processes on co-evolving networks
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