Reflection vs Persuation. Opinión formation model for interacting self propelled agents.

N. CLEMENTI; JORGE REVELLI; G. J. SIBONA

Córdoba

Jornada; 42 Jornadas Argentinas de Informática JAIIO; 2013

We study the influence of agent interaction in the opinion formation dynamics in a closed 2D system. We propose a general non linear analytical framework which establishes the evolution of the opinion of the population. we obtain analytical results in some special cases and exact numerical ones as well. We implement a simple self-propelled agnt model where each agent adopts one of the n possible opinions or states. Those individual states may change while the agents keeps in contact with other ones (change by interaction) during a finite time or when they are alone (change by reflection). Molecular dynamics-type simulations were performed in order to check theoretical results, finding an excellent agreement between theoretical results and simulations; and to find new behaviors in the system.