Opinion dynamics in finance and business: a literature review and research opportunities

Q Zha, G Kou, H Zhang, H Liang, X Chen, CC Li… - Financial Innovation, 2020 - Springer
Opinion dynamics is an opinion evolution process of a group of agents, where the final
opinion distribution tends to three stable states: consensus, polarization, and fragmentation …

Competitive contagion in networks

S Goyal, M Kearns - Proceedings of the forty-fourth annual ACM …, 2012 - dl.acm.org
We develop a game-theoretic framework for the study of competition between firms who
have budgets to" seed" the initial adoption of their products by consumers located in a social …

Distributed randomized algorithms for opinion formation, centrality computation and power systems estimation: A tutorial overview

P Frasca, H Ishii, C Ravazzi, R Tempo - European journal of control, 2015 - Elsevier
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 …

Competitive targeted advertising over networks

K Bimpikis, A Ozdaglar, E Yildiz - Operations Research, 2016 - pubsonline.informs.org
Recent advances in information technology have allowed firms to gather vast amounts of
data regarding consumers' preferences and the structure and intensity of their social …

Managing consensus with minimum adjustments in group decision making with opinions evolution

X Chen, Z Ding, Y Dong, H Liang - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Nowadays, online social networks, such as “Facebook” and “WeChat,” facilitate the
expression, diffusion, and interactions of individuals' opinions regarding various issues. In …

Gossips and prejudices: Ergodic randomized dynamics in social networks

P Frasca, C Ravazzi, R Tempo, H Ishii - IFAC Proceedings Volumes, 2013 - Elsevier
In this paper we study a new model of opinion dynamics in social networks, which has two
main features. First, agents asynchronously interact in pairs, and these pairs are chosen …

Strategic resource allocation for competitive influence in social networks

AM Masucci, A Silva - 2014 52nd Annual Allerton Conference …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
One of the main objectives of data mining is to help companies determine to which potential
customers to market and how many resources to allocate to these potential customers. Most …

Optimal dynamic marketing-mix policies for frequently purchased products and services versus consumer durable goods: A generalized analytic approach

HI Mesak, A Bari, TS Ellis - European Journal of Operational Research, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper deals with the qualitative characterization of optimal pricing and advertising
policies together with the optimal ratio of the advertising elasticity of demand to its price …

[PDF][PDF] Computational epidemiology as a challenge domain for multiagent systems

S Swarup, SG Eubank… - Proceedings of the 2014 …, 2014 - aamas.csc.liv.ac.uk
This paper describes the state of the art in computational epidemiology and makes the case
that the multiagent systems field can both contribute much to, and gain much from …

Competitive diffusion in social networks: Quality or seeding?

A Fazeli, A Ajorlou, A Jadbabaie - IEEE Transactions on Control …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we study a strategic model of marketing and product consumption in social
networks. We consider two firms in a market competing to maximize the consumption of their …