Opinion dynamics have attracted the interest of researchers from different fields. Local
interactions among individuals create interesting dynamics for the system as a whole. Such …

Abstract In 1997, Robert Axelrod wondered in a highly influential paper" If people tend to
become more alike in their beliefs, attitudes, and behavior when they interact, why do not all …

Today, humans have a critical impact on the Earth system and vice versa, which can
generate complex feedback processes between social and ecological dynamics. Integrating …

Opinion dynamics is a fusion process of individual opinions, in which a group of interacting
agents continuously fuse their opinions on the same issue based on established fusion rules …

At the beginning of this century, Hegselmann and Krause proposed a dynamical model for
opinion formation that is referred to as the Bounded Confidence Opinion Dynamics (BCOD) …

Recently, social phenomena have received a lot of attention not only from social scientists,
but also from physicists, mathematicians and computer scientists, in the emerging …

Opinions are an integral part of how we perceive the world and each other. They shape
collective action, playing a role in democratic processes, the evolution of norms, and cultural …

One of the most intriguing dynamics in biological systems is the emergence of clustering, in
the sense that individuals self-organize into separate agglomerations in physical or …

We present an agent-based model for studying the societal implications of attitude change
theories. Various psychological theories of persuasive communication at the individual level …

In opinion dynamics, some agents may exhibit the cognitive dissonance behaviors owing to
the contradictory belief, attitudes and opinions that they might confront with. This may greatly …