3 papers
cs.CY2026
Minimal Effort to Consensus (MEC) polarization measure
Jesús Aranda, Juan Francisco Díaz, Juan Camilo Narváez +4
We introduce the Minimum Effort to Consensus (MEC), a measure that quantifies polarization as resistance to consensus: a population is highly polarized when much effort is needed t…
cs.MA2024
The Sound of Silence in Social Networks
Jesús Aranda, Juan Francisco Díaz, David Gaona +1
We generalize the classic multi-agent DeGroot model for opinion dynamics to incorporate the Spiral of Silence theory from political science. This theory states that individuals may…
cs.SI2023
Fairness and Consensus in an Asynchronous Opinion Model for Social Networks (Technical Report)
Jesús Aranda, Sebastián Betancourt, Juan Fco. Díaz +1
We introduce a DeGroot-based model for opinion dynamics in social networks. A community of agents is represented as a weighted directed graph whose edges indicate how much agents i…