Recent decades have seen a rise in the use of physics methods to study different societal
phenomena. This development has been due to physicists venturing outside of their …

Opinion dynamics is an opinion evolution process of a group of agents, where the final
opinion distribution tends to three stable states: consensus, polarization, and fragmentation …

The description of emerging collective phenomena and self-organization in systems
composed of large numbers of individuals has gained increasing interest from various …

We review a general class of models for self-organized dynamics based on alignment. The
dynamics of such systems is governed solely by interactions among individuals or “agents,” …

Statistical physics has proven to be a fruitful framework to describe phenomena outside the
realm of traditional physics. Recent years have witnessed an attempt by physicists to study …

We study a model of opinion dynamics introduced by Krause: each agent has an opinion
represented by a real number, and updates its opinion by averaging all agent opinions that …

We introduce and discuss certain kinetic models of (continuous) opinion formation involving
both exchange of opinion between individual agents and diffusion of information. We show …

The structure of a network can significantly influence the properties of the dynamical
processes that take place on them. While many studies have been paid to this influence …

We present and discuss various one-dimensional linear Fokker–Planck-type equations that
have been recently considered in connection with the study of interacting multi-agent …

As a key sub-field of social dynamics and sociophysics, opinion dynamics utilizes
mathematical and physical models and the agent-based computational modeling tools, to …