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Opinion modeling on social media and marketing aspects
We introduce and discuss kinetic models of opinion formation on social
networks in which the distribution function depends on both the opinion and the
connectivity of the agents. The opinion formation model is subsequently coupled
with a kinetic model describing the spreading of popularity of a product on the
web through a social network. Numerical experiments on the underlying kinetic
models show a good qualitative agreement with some measured trends of hashtags
on social media websites and illustrate how companies can take advantage of the
network structure to obtain at best the advertisement of their products
The Spread of Opinions and Proportional Voting
Election results are determined by numerous social factors that affect the
formation of opinion of the voters, including the network of interactions
between them and the dynamics of opinion influence. In this work we study the
result of proportional elections using an opinion dynamics model similar to
simple opinion spreading over a complex network. Erdos-Renyi, Barabasi-Albert,
regular lattices and randomly augmented lattices are considered as models of
the underlying social networks. The model reproduces the power law behavior of
number of candidates with a given number of votes found in real elections with
the correct slope, a cutoff for larger number of votes and a plateau for small
number of votes. It is found that the small world property of the underlying
network is fundamental for the emergence of the power law regime.Comment: 10 pages, 7 figure
The Naming Game in Social Networks: Community Formation and Consensus Engineering
We study the dynamics of the Naming Game [Baronchelli et al., (2006) J. Stat.
Mech.: Theory Exp. P06014] in empirical social networks. This stylized
agent-based model captures essential features of agreement dynamics in a
network of autonomous agents, corresponding to the development of shared
classification schemes in a network of artificial agents or opinion spreading
and social dynamics in social networks. Our study focuses on the impact that
communities in the underlying social graphs have on the outcome of the
agreement process. We find that networks with strong community structure hinder
the system from reaching global agreement; the evolution of the Naming Game in
these networks maintains clusters of coexisting opinions indefinitely. Further,
we investigate agent-based network strategies to facilitate convergence to
global consensus.Comment: The original publication is available at
http://www.springerlink.com/content/70370l311m1u0ng3
Nonequilibrium Phase Transitions in Directed Small-World Networks
Many social, biological, and economic systems can be approached by complex
networks of interacting units. The behaviour of several models on small-world
networks has recently been studied. These models are expected to capture the
essential features of the complex processes taking place on real networks like
disease spreading, formation of public opinion, distribution of wealth, etc. In
many of these systems relations are directed, in the sense that links only act
in one direction (outwards or inwards). We investigate the effect of directed
links on the behaviour of a simple spin-like model evolving on a small-world
network. We show that directed networks may lead to a highly nontrivial phase
diagram including first and second-order phase transitions out of equilibrium.Comment: 4 pages, RevTeX format, 4 postscript figs, uses eps
Opinion Formation by Informed Agents
Opinion formation and innovation diffusion have gained lots of attention in the last decade due to its application in social and political science. Control of the diffusion process usually takes place using the most influential people in the society, called opinion leaders or key players. But the opinion leaders can hardly be accessed or hired for spreading the desired opinion or information. This is where informed agents can play a key role. Informed agents are common people, not distinguishable from the other members of the society that act in coordination. In this paper we show that informed agents are able to gradually shift the public opinion toward a desired goal through microscopic interactions. In order to do so they pretend to have an opinion similar to others, but while interacting with them, gradually and intentionally change their opinion toward the desired direction. In this paper a computational model for opinion formation by the informed agents based on the bounded confidence model is proposed. The effects of different parameter settings including population size of the informed agents, their characteristics, and network structure, are investigated. The results show that social and open-minded informed agents are more efficient than selfish or closed-minded agents in control of the public opinion.Social Networks, Informed Agents, Innovation Diffusion, Bounded Confidence, Opinion Dynamics, Opinion Formation
Opinion modeling on social media and marketing aspects
We introduce and discuss kinetic models of opinion formation on social networks in which the distribution function depends on both the opinion and the connectivity of the agents. The opinion formation model is subsequently coupled with a kinetic model describing the spreading of popularity of a product on the web through a social network. Numerical experiments on the underlying kinetic models show a good qualitative agreement with some measured trends of hashtags on social media websites and illustrate how companies can take advantage of the network structure to obtain at best the advertisement of their products
Optimal percolation on multiplex networks
Optimal percolation is the problem of finding the minimal set of nodes such
that if the members of this set are removed from a network, the network is
fragmented into non-extensive disconnected clusters. The solution of the
optimal percolation problem has direct applicability in strategies of
immunization in disease spreading processes, and influence maximization for
certain classes of opinion dynamical models. In this paper, we consider the
problem of optimal percolation on multiplex networks. The multiplex scenario
serves to realistically model various technological, biological, and social
networks. We find that the multilayer nature of these systems, and more
precisely multiplex characteristics such as edge overlap and interlayer
degree-degree correlation, profoundly changes the properties of the set of
nodes identified as the solution of the optimal percolation problem.Comment: 7 pages, 5 figures + appendi
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