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Evolution of opinions on social networks in the presence of competing committed groups
J. Xie, J. Emenheiser, M. Kirby +3
Public opinion is often affected by the presence of committed groups of individuals dedicated to competing points of view. Using a model of pairwise social influence, we study how…
Distributed flow optimization and cascading effects in weighted complex networks
Andrea Asztalos, Sameet Sreenivasan, Boleslaw K. Szymanski +1
We investigate the effect of a specific edge weighting scheme on distributed flow efficiency and robustness to cascading failures in scale-free networks. In part…
Accelerating consensus on co-evolving networks: the effect of committed individuals
P. Singh, S. Sreenivasan, B. K. Szymanski +1
Social networks are not static but rather constantly evolve in time. One of the elements thought to drive the evolution of social network structure is homophily - the need for indi…
Social Influencing and Associated Random Walk Models: Asymptotic Consensus Times on the Complete Graph
W. Zhang, C. Lim, S. Sreenivasan +3
We investigate consensus formation and the asymptotic consensus times in stylized individual- or agent-based models, in which global agreement is achieved through pairwise negotiat…
Social consensus through the influence of committed minorities
J. Xie, S. Sreenivasan, G. Korniss +3
We show how the prevailing majority opinion in a population can be rapidly reversed by a small fraction p of randomly distributed committed agents who consistently proselytize the…