As the scale of distributed control systems over networks increases and interactions
between different subsystems become more sophisticated, questions of the resilience of …

Opinion dynamics is a fusion process of individual opinions, in which a group of interacting
agents continuously fuse their opinions on the same issue based on established fusion rules …

The process by which new ideas, innovations, and behaviors spread through a large social
network can be thought of as a networked interaction game: Each agent obtains information …

In this tutorial paper, we study three specific applications: opinion formation in social
networks, centrality measures in complex networks and estimation problems in large-scale …

A long line of work in social psychology has studied variations in people's susceptibility to
persuasion--the extent to which they are willing to modify their opinions on a topic. This body …

Agent-based models are now largely adopted to describe how opinions emerge in a group
of people. This survey provides an analysis of the literature on the subject, highlighting the …

We provide bounds on the smallest eigenvalue of grounded Laplacian matrices (which are
obtained by removing certain rows and columns of the Laplacian matrix of a given graph) …

Prior studies on opinion modeling focus on nonlinear physics or statistical physics methods,
or simulating the opinion interaction merely by the principle of the minority being …

Flood warnings from various information sources are important for individuals to make
evacuation decisions during a flood event. In this study, we develop a general opinion …

Influence maximization in social networks is of great importance for marketing new products.
Signed social networks with both positive (friends) and negative (foes) relationships pose …