EMERGING STRUCTURES IN SOCIAL NETWORKS GUIDED BY OPINIONS' EXCHANGES

Timoteo Carletti (), Simone Righi and Duccio Fanelli ()
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Timoteo Carletti: Département de Mathématique and naXys, Namur Center for Complex Systems, Facultés Universitaires Notre Dame de la Paix, Rempart de la Vierge 8 Namur, B5000, Belgium
Duccio Fanelli: Dipartimento di Energetica, CSDC, Università di Firenze, INFN, via S. Marta, 3, 50139 Firenze, Italy

Advances in Complex Systems (ACS), 2011, vol. 14, issue 01, 13-30

Abstract: In this paper, we show that the small world and weak ties phenomena can spontaneously emerge in a social network of interacting agents. This dynamics is simulated in the framework of a simplified model of opinion diffusion in an evolving social network where agents are made to interact, possibly update their beliefs and modify the social relationships according to the opinion exchange.

Keywords: Opinion dynamics; social network; small world; weak ties (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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