Opinion formation in a system of interacting moving agents

G. J. SIBONA; JORGE REVELLI; GUILLERMO TERRANOVA

Carlos Paz

Workshop; XIII Latin American Workshop on non-linear Phenomena: LAWNP?13; 2013

FaMAF-UNC

We study the influence of spatial dynamics of interacting self propelled agents in the opinion formation. We propose a general non linear analytical framework which allow us to determine the evolution of the opinion of the population. It is possible to obtain analytical results for some special perturbative cases and numerical results in general. In the model agents adopt one of the n possible opinions or states, which may change while the agent keeps contact with another one. We implement a computational model to performed molecular dynamics-type simulations in order to check theoretical results for a specific case, finding an excellent agreement