UNIVERSALITY OF THE THRESHOLD FOR COMPLETE CONSENSUS FOR THE OPINION DYNAMICS OF DEFFUANTet al

Santo Fortunato ()
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Santo Fortunato: Fakultät für Physik, Universität Bielefeld, D-33501 Bielefeld, Germany

International Journal of Modern Physics C (IJMPC), 2004, vol. 15, issue 09, 1301-1307

Abstract: In the compromise model of Deffuantet al., opinions are real numbers between 0 and 1, and two agents are compatible if the difference of their opinions is smaller than the confidence bound parameter ∊. The opinions of a randomly chosen pair of compatible agents get closer to each other. We provide strong numerical evidence that the threshold value of ∊ above which all agents share the same opinion in the final configuration is 1/2, independently of the underlying social topology.

Keywords: Sociophysics; Monte Carlo simulations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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