A fundamental aspect of society is the exchange and discussion of opinions between
individuals, occurring in situations as varied as company boardrooms, elementary school …

The past few decades have witnessed a prevalence of applying dynamical models to the
study of social networks. This paper reviews recent advances in the investigation of social …

With the ongoing debate on'freedom of speech'vs.'hate speech,'there is an urgent need to
carefully understand the consequences of the inevitable culmination of the two, ie,'freedom …

For decades, scientists have studied opinion formation in social networks, where information
travels via word of mouth. The particularly interesting case is when polar opinions …

In large-scale group decision making events, diverse backgrounds of decision makers
(DMs) may result in various non-cooperative behaviors as they pursue personal interests …

This paper considers the discrete-time version of Altafini's model for opinion dynamics in
which the interaction among a group of agents is described by a time-varying signed …

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 …

In a social network, an individual may express an opinion against his/her own private
opinion. Moreover, during the evolution of opinion dynamics, an individual may only accept …

The recently proposed DeGroot-Friedkin model describes the dynamical evolution of
individual social power in a social network that holds opinion discussions on a sequence of …

In this paper, we investigate a general nonlinear model of opinion dynamics in which both
state-dependent susceptibility to persuasion and antagonistic interactions are considered …