5 papers
Emergent structures in coupled opinion and network dynamics
Andrew Nugent, Carmen Calatayud Fernandez, Susana N. Gomes
This paper investigates a model of opinion formation on an adaptive social network, consisting of a system of coupled ordinary differential equations for individuals' opinions and…
What is the optimal way to lie? From microscopic to kinetic descriptions of consensus control
Sasha Glendinning, Susana N. Gomes, Marie-Therese Wolfram
We establish an approach for consensus control of opinion dynamics by introducing a liar to the classical system. The liar's aim is to steer the population towards consensus at the…
Opinion Dynamics with Continuous Age Structure
Andrew Nugent, Susana N. Gomes, Marie-Therese Wolfram
We extend a classical model of continuous opinion formation to explicitly include an age-structured population. We begin by considering a stochastic differential equation model whi…
CBX: Python and Julia packages for consensus-based interacting particle methods
Rafael Bailo, Alethea Barbaro, Susana N. Gomes +4
We introduce CBXPy and ConsensusBasedX.jl, Python and Julia implementations of consensus-based interacting particle systems (CBX), which generalise consensus-based optimization met…
Steering opinion dynamics through control of social networks
Andrew Nugent, Susana N. Gomes, Marie-Therese Wolfram
In this paper we propose a novel control approach for opinion dynamics on evolving networks. The controls modify the strength of connections in the network, rather than influencing…