Opinion dynamics on directed small-world networks
| Autor: | Jiang, Luo-Luo, Hua, Da-Yin, Zhu, Jun-Fang, Wang, Bing-Hong, Zhou, Tao |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
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| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| DOI: | 10.1140/epjb/e2008-00342-3 |
| Popis: | In this paper, we investigate the self-affirmation effect on formation of public opinion in a directed small-world social network. The system presents a non-equilibrium phase transition from a consensus state to a disordered state with coexistence of opinions. The dynamical behaviors are very sensitive to the density of long-range interactions and the strength of self-affirmation. When the long-range interactions are sparse and individual generally does not insist on his/her opinion, the system will display a continuous phase transition, in the opposite case with high self-affirmation strength and dense long-range interactions, the system does not display a phase transition. Between those two extreme cases, the system undergoes a discontinuous phase transition. Comment: 6 pages, 5 figures |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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