The naming game (NG) describes the agreement dynamics of a population of agents that
interact locally in a pairwise fashion, and in recent years statistical physics tools and …

Social conventions govern countless behaviors all of us engage in every day, from how we
greet each other to the languages we speak. But how can shared conventions emerge …

The present contribution reviews a set of different versions of the basic naming game model,
differing in the underlying topology or in the mechanisms regulating the interactions …

Human language provides a highly efficient communication system, which emerged due to
cultural interactions. To understand this still mysterious process, various interdisciplinary …

Privacy, security, and trust concerns are continuously hindering the growth of cloud
computing despite its attractive features. To mitigate these concerns, an emerging approach …

The naming game model characterizes the main evolutionary features of languages or more
generally of communication systems. Very recently, the combination of complex networks …

In this work we study a modified version of the Sznajd sociophysics model. In particular we
introduce reputation, a mechanism that limits the capacity of persuasion of the agents. The …

To investigate how consensus is reached on a large self-organized peer-to-peer network,
we extended the naming game model commonly used in language and communication to …

In this work we study a modified version of the two-dimensional Sznajd sociophysics model.
In particular, we consider the effects of agents' reputations in the persuasion rules. In other …

Background In this paper, we study the process of opinion dynamics and consensus
building in online collaboration systems, in which users interact with each other following …