Strategic Communications in Opinion Diffusion

Abstract

We propose a strategic communication model and exploit its convergent properties to draw insights on how individuals influence each other's decisions. The starting point for this paper is the so called bounded confidence model in which agents update their opinions only when they are like-minded (i.e. their opinion distance is smaller than a threshold). In our model in addition to the existence of trust between interacting agents the agents also play a central role in determining how much effort and time they want to invest in interacting with others. The strategic communication thus refers to the process that allows individuals to select neighbors, with whom the interaction produces a maximization of the local utility functions. Our goal is to analyze the dynamics of opinion formation under the proposed communication strategy, with a focus on understanding how and under what conditions clustering patterns emerge in the opinion space.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 2012
Accession Number
ADA567530

Entities

People

  • Ananthram Swami
  • Anna Scaglione
  • Lin Li
  • Qing Zhao

Organizations

  • University of California

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Bayesian Networks
  • Case Studies
  • Computational Science
  • Computers
  • Differential Equations
  • Diffusion
  • Dynamics
  • Equations
  • Mathematical Models
  • Models
  • Motivation
  • Networks
  • Numbers
  • Phase Transformations
  • Probability
  • Probability Distributions
  • Strategic Communications

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  • East Asian Political and Security Studies within the Soviet Union
  • Neural Network Machine Learning.
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.

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  • Space