Deterministic Asynchronous Threshold-Based Opinion Dynamics in Signed Weighted Graphs

Among the many (mostly randomized) models proposed in the last decades to study how opinions of a set of individuals interconnected by pairwise relations evolve, a novel deterministic model is introduced in this paper that is able to encompass individual choices, strength and sign of relations, and...

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Main Author: Miriam Di Ianni
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Published: MDPI AG 2025-02-01
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description Among the many (mostly randomized) models proposed in the last decades to study how opinions of a set of individuals interconnected by pairwise relations evolve, a novel deterministic model is introduced in this paper that is able to encompass individual choices, strength and sign of relations, and asynchronism. In particular, asynchronism has been considered until now only in randomized settings. It is here studied in which cases the behavior of the resulting dynamical network is predictable, that is, in which cases the number of opinion configurations encountered by the set of individuals before the dynamical network enters a loop is polynomially bounded by the network size.
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spelling doaj-art-e60b9f7746df4d709595a8f735791de22025-08-20T03:40:43ZengMDPI AGAppliedMath2673-99092025-02-01511610.3390/appliedmath5010016Deterministic Asynchronous Threshold-Based Opinion Dynamics in Signed Weighted GraphsMiriam Di Ianni0Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Impresa “Mario Lucertini”, Università degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata”, 00133 Roma, ItalyAmong the many (mostly randomized) models proposed in the last decades to study how opinions of a set of individuals interconnected by pairwise relations evolve, a novel deterministic model is introduced in this paper that is able to encompass individual choices, strength and sign of relations, and asynchronism. In particular, asynchronism has been considered until now only in randomized settings. It is here studied in which cases the behavior of the resulting dynamical network is predictable, that is, in which cases the number of opinion configurations encountered by the set of individuals before the dynamical network enters a loop is polynomially bounded by the network size.https://www.mdpi.com/2673-9909/5/1/16social networksnetwork analysisgraph theorydiffusion processescomputational complexity
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Deterministic Asynchronous Threshold-Based Opinion Dynamics in Signed Weighted Graphs
AppliedMath
social networks
network analysis
graph theory
diffusion processes
computational complexity
title Deterministic Asynchronous Threshold-Based Opinion Dynamics in Signed Weighted Graphs
title_full Deterministic Asynchronous Threshold-Based Opinion Dynamics in Signed Weighted Graphs
title_fullStr Deterministic Asynchronous Threshold-Based Opinion Dynamics in Signed Weighted Graphs
title_full_unstemmed Deterministic Asynchronous Threshold-Based Opinion Dynamics in Signed Weighted Graphs
title_short Deterministic Asynchronous Threshold-Based Opinion Dynamics in Signed Weighted Graphs
title_sort deterministic asynchronous threshold based opinion dynamics in signed weighted graphs
topic social networks
network analysis
graph theory
diffusion processes
computational complexity
url https://www.mdpi.com/2673-9909/5/1/16
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