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 Information cascades are important dynamical processes in complex networks. An
information cascade can describe the spreading dynamics of rumour, disease, memes, or …

“Empowering and thoroughly researched, this book offers useful contemporary analysis and
possible solutions to one of the greatest threats to democracy.”—Kirkus Reviews Editors' …

In social network group decision making (SNGDM), the consensus reaching process (CRP)
is used to help decision makers with social relationships reach consensus. Many CRP …

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 …

In this paper, from the perspective of opinion dynamics theory, we investigate the interaction
mechanism of a group of autonomous agents in an e-commerce community (or social …

Agent-based simulation has become increasingly popular as a modeling approach in the
social sciences because it enables researchers to build models where individual entities …

In this age of Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, there is rapidly growing interest in
understanding network-enabled opinion dynamics in large groups of autonomous agents …

Opinion dynamics is a kind of collective decision-making process and focuses on the study
of evolution and formation of opinions within a human society. Particularly, bounded …

In this paper we investigate the effects of social power on the evolution of opinions in model
networks as well as in a number of real social networks. A continuous opinion formation …