CONTINUOUS-TIME AVERAGE-PRESERVING OPINION DYNAMICS WITH OPINION-DEPENDENT COMMUNICATIONS
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Blondel, Vincent D.
Hendrickx, Julien
Tsitsiklis, John N.
Date Issued
October 2010
Journal
SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization
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Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Citation
Blondel, Vincent D., Julien M. Hendrickx, and John N. Tsitsiklis. “Continuous-Time Average-Preserving Opinion Dynamics with Opinion-Dependent Communications.” SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization 48.8 (2010) : 5214. © 2010 Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
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Abstract
We study a simple continuous-time multiagent system related to Krause's model of opinion dynamics: each agent holds a real value, and this value is continuously attracted by every other value differing from it by less than 1, with an intensity proportional to the difference. We prove convergence to a set of clusters, with the agents in each cluster sharing a common value, and provide a lower bound on the distance between clusters at a stable equilibrium, under a suitable notion of multiagent system stability. To better understand the behavior of the system for a large number of agents, we introduce a variant involving a continuum of agents. We prove, under some conditions, the existence of a solution to the system dynamics, convergence to clusters, and a nontrivial lower bound on the distance between clusters. Finally, we establish that the continuum model accurately represents the asymptotic behavior of a system with a finite but large number of agents.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems
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https://doi.org/10.1137/090766188
