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Opinion Exchange Dynamics
We survey a range of models of opinion exchange. From the introduction: "The
exchange of opinions between individuals is a fundamental social interaction...
Moreover, many models in this field are an excellent playground for
mathematicians, especially those working in probability, algorithms and
combinatorics. The goal of this survey is to introduce such models to
mathematicians, and especially to those working in discrete mathematics,
information theory, optimization, probability and statistics."Comment: 62 pages. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with
arXiv:1207.589
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