The article describes the current status and potential directions of development of agent-
based models of social opinion dynamics. Despite extensive effort, the models achieve, at …

The influence of zealots on the noisy voter model is studied theoretically and numerically at
the mean-field level. The noisy voter model is a modification of the voter model that includes …

Most sociophysics opinion dynamics simulations assume that contacts between agents lead
to greater similarity of opinions, and that there is a tendency for agents having similar …

Background: A realistic description of the social processes leading to the increasing
reluctance to various forms of vaccination is a very challenging task. This is due to the …

We investigate opinion dynamics in a fully-connected system, consisting of $ n $ identical
and anonymous agents, where one of the opinions (which is called correct) represents a …

The influence of contrarians on the noisy voter model is studied at the mean-field level. The
noisy voter model is a variant of the voter model where agents can adopt two opinions …

We address the self-stabilizing bit-dissemination problem, designed to capture the
challenges of spreading information and reaching consensus among entities with minimal …

The noisy voter model is a stylized representation of opinion dynamics. Individuals copy
opinions from other individuals, and are subject to spontaneous state changes. In the case …

The capabilities of distributed systems in stochastic environments are inherently limited by
the difficulty of efficiently circulating information within the system. To better understand this …

Consensus is the main principle defining the process of standardization. At present time
there are no any criteria which can be used for the assessment the consensus achievement …