Seminar Details
2016-10-25 (14:00) : Continuous opinions and discrete actions in social networks: a multi-agent system approach
At Euler building (A002)
Organized by Mathematical Engineering
Speaker :
Martin, Samuel
Abstract :
We propose and analyze a novel multi-agent opinion dynamics model in which agents have access to actions which are quantized version of the opinions of their neighbors. The model produces different behaviors observed in social networks such as disensus, clustering, oscillations, opinion propagation, even when the communication network is connected. The main result provides the characterization of preservation and diffusion of actions under general communication topologies. A complete analysis allowing the opinion forecasting is given in the particular cases of complete and ring communication graphs. Numerical examples illustrate the main features of this model.
Joint work with N. R. Chowdhury, I.-C. Morarescu, and S. Srikant.