5 papers
Biased Opinion Dynamics: When the Devil Is in the Details
Aris Anagnostopoulos, Luca Becchetti, Emilio Cruciani +2
We investigate opinion dynamics in multi-agent networks when a bias toward one of two possible opinions exists; for example, reflecting a status quo vs a superior alternative. Star…
Election Control through Social Influence with Unknown Preferences
Mohammad Abouei Mehrizi, Federico Corò, Emilio Cruciani +1
The election control problem through social influence asks to find a set of nodes in a social network of voters to be the starters of a political campaign aiming at supporting a gi…
Exploiting Social Influence to Control Elections Based on Scoring Rules
Federico Corò, Emilio Cruciani, Gianlorenzo D'Angelo +1
Online social networks are used to diffuse opinions and ideas among users, enabling a faster communication and a wider audience. The way in which opinions are conditioned by social…
Distributed Community Detection via Metastability of the 2-Choices Dynamics
Emilio Cruciani, Emanuele Natale, Giacomo Scornavacca
We investigate the behavior of a simple majority dynamics on networks of agents whose interaction topology exhibits a community structure. By leveraging recent advancements in the…
Phase Transition of the 2-Choices Dynamics on Core-Periphery Networks
Emilio Cruciani, Emanuele Natale, André Nusser +1
Consider the following process on a network: Each agent initially holds either opinion blue or red; then, in each round, each agent looks at two random neighbors and, if the two ha…