How Does Active Participation Affect Consensus: Adaptive Network Model of Opinion Dynamics and Influence Maximizing Rewiring

• Published in: Complexity (New York, N.Y.) Vol. 2019; no. 2019; pp. 1 - 16
• Main Author: Brede, Markus
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cairo, Egypt Hindawi Publishing Corporation 01.01.2019; Hindawi; John Wiley & Sons, Inc; Wiley
• Subjects: Analysis; Clusters; Competition; Maximization; Minority & ethnic groups; Optimization; Optimization techniques; Organization theory; Phase transitions; Rewiring; Social networks; Studies
• ISSN: 1076-2787; 1099-0526
• DOI: 10.1155/2019/1486909

In this paper we study the impact of active participation, or deliberately seeking out other agents with an aim of convincing them, on the dynamics of consensus formation. For this purpose, we propose an adaptive network model in which two processes shape opinion dynamics at interwoven time-scales a...