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A Phase Transition for Opinion Dynamics with Competing Biases
Federico Capannoli, Emilio Cruciani, Hlafo Alfie Mimun +1
We study a nonlinear dynamics of binary opinions in a population of agents connected by a directed network, influenced by two competing forces. On the one hand, agents are stubborn…
Opinion Dynamics: A Comprehensive Overview
Mohammad Shirzadi, Emilio Cruciani, Ahad N. Zehmakan
Opinion dynamics, the evolution of individuals through social interactions, is an important area of research with applications ranging from politics to marketing. Due to its interd…
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…