Bounded confidence model: addressed information maintain diversity of opinions

• Authors: K. Malarz , K. Kułakowski
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

A community of agents is subject to a stream of messages, which are represented as points on a plane of issues. Messages are sent by media and by agents themselves. Messages from media shape the public opinion. They are unbiased, i.e. positive and negative opinions on a given issue appear with equal frequencies. In our previous work, the only criterion to receive a message by an agent is if the distance between this message and the ones received earlier does not exceed the given value of the tolerance parameter. Here we introduce a possibility to address a message to a given neighbour. We show that this option reduces the unanimity effect, what improves the collective performance.

Keywords

EN

87.23.Ge; 07.05.Tp; 64.60.aq

Discipline

• 87.23.Ge: Dynamics of social systems
• 64.60.aq: Networks
• 07.05.Tp: Computer modeling and simulation

• Publisher: Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta Physica Polonica A
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 121
• Issue: 2B
• Pages: B-86-B-88

Dates

published

2012-02

Contributors

author

K. Malarz

• AGH University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science, al. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Kraków, Poland

author

K. Kułakowski

• AGH University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science, al. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Kraków, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.12693/APhysPolA.121.B-86