Opinion formation in a system of interacting moving agents

G. J. SIBONA; J. A. REVELLI; G. R. TERRANOVA

Carlos Paz

Workshop; XIII Latin American Workshop on Nonlinear Phenomena; 2013

Universidad Nacional de Córdoba

We study the inuence of spatial dynamics of interacting self propelled agents in the opinionformation. We propose a general non linear analytical framework which allow us to determinethe evolution of the opinion of the population. It is possible to obtain analytical results for somespecial perturbative cases and numerical results in general. In the model agents adopt one ofthe n possible opinions or states, which may change while the agent keeps contact with anotherone. We implement a computational model to perform molecular dynamics-type simulations inorder to check theoretical results for a specic case, nding an excellent agreement.