Collective Phenomena in Complex Social Networks

FEDERICO VAZQUEZ; JUAN C. GONZALEZ-AVELLA; VICTOR M. EGUILUZ; MAXI SAN MIGUEL

Hawai

Conferencia; 2007 International Conference on Applied Nonlinear Dynamics; 2007

The problem of social consensus is approached from the perspective ofnonlinear dynamics of interacting agents in a complex network. Some basic concepts,such as dynamical metastability, are discussed in the framework of the prototypevoter model. In the context of Axelrod’s model for the dissemination of culturewe describe a co-evolutionary dynamics formulation with recent results on groupformation and nonequilibrium network fragmentation and recombination transitions.