In recent years, a new branch of auction models called diffusion auction has extended the
traditional auction into social network scenarios. The diffusion auction models the auction as …

Individuals do not typically reason in isolation when confronted with collectivedecision
making, but rather take into consideration the preferences of likeminded individuals and …

Opinion diffusion is studied on social graphs where agents hold binary opinions and where
social pressure leads them to conform to the opinion manifested by the majority of their …

We propose a generalisation of liquid democracy in which a voter can either vote directly on
the issues at stake, delegate her vote to another voter, or express complex delegations to a …

We introduce a model of preference diffusion in which agents in a social network update
their preferences based on those of their influencers in the network, and we study the …

We analyse opinion diffusion in social networks, where a finite set of individuals is
connected in a directed graph and each simultaneously changes their opinion to that of the …

Friedkin and Johnsen (1990) modeled opinion formation in social networks as a dynamic
process which evolves in rounds: at each round each agent updates her expressed opinion …

Increasing ethnic diversity fosters scholarly interest in how the spatial segregation of groups
affects opinion polarization in a society. Despite much empirical and theoretical research …

In recent years, studies in many fields have widely explored diffusion in social networks,
which refers to the collective behavior of a set of autonomous social actors who interact with …

The paper studies the stabilization of the process of diffusion of binary opinions on networks.
It first shows how such dynamics can be modeled and studied via techniques from binary …