Future Communication, Information and Computer Science – Zheng (Ed.)
© 2015 Taylor & Francis Group, London, 978-1-138-02653-7
Extending the Deffuant model by incorporating the influence factor
J.P. Cao, H. Wang & F.C. Qiao
Information System and Management School, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China
ABSTRACT: Influence is a critical factor for the formation of public opinions. However, it hasn’t been
considered in classical continuous opinion dynamics. We extended the interacting rules by stressing different
influence of agents in Deffuant dynamic systems. Through Monte Calo simulation of our model on Watts-Strogtz
(WS) small world, Barab’asi-Albert (BA) network and an ego-network collected from Sina Weibo (weibo.com,
a Twitter ...