Instruct: Identify the main and secondary category of Arxiv papers based on the titles and abstracts
Query: Opinion formation and distribution in a bounded confidence model on
  various networks   In the social, behavioral, and economic sciences, it is an important problem
to predict which individual opinions will eventually dominate in a large
population, if there will be a consensus, and how long it takes a consensus to
form. This idea has been studied heavily both in physics and in other
disciplines, and the answer depends strongly on both the model for opinions and
for the network structure on which the opinions evolve. One model that was
created to study consensus formation quantitatively is the Deffuant model, in
which the opinion distribution of a population evolves via sequential random
pairwise encounters. To consider the heterogeneity of interactions in a
population due to social influence, we study the Deffuant model on various
network structures (deterministic synthetic networks, random synthetic
networks, and social networks constructed from Facebook data) using several
interaction mechanisms. We numerically simulate the Deffuant model and conduct
regression analyses to investigate the dependence of the convergence time to
equilibrium on parameters, including a confidence bound for opinion updates,
the number of participating entities, and their willingness to compromise. We
find that network structure and parameter values both have an effect on the
convergence time, and for some network topologies, the convergence time
undergoes a transition at a critical value of the confidence bound. We discuss
the number of opinion groups that form at equilibrium in terms of a
confidence-bound threshold for a transition from consensus to multiple-opinion
equilibria.

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The categories of this paper are: hep-lat
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The categories of this paper are: hep-th
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The categories of this paper are: solv-int
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The categories of this paper are: ao-sci
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The categories of this paper are: supr-con
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The categories of this paper are: q-bio
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The categories of this paper are: q-fin
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The categories of this paper are: dg-ga
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The categories of this paper are: nucl-ex
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The categories of this paper are: econ
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The categories of this paper are: nucl-th
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The categories of this paper are: chao-dyn
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The categories of this paper are: acc-phys
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The categories of this paper are: chem-ph
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The categories of this paper are: hep-ph
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The categories of this paper are: gr-qc