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Francesco Pasquale

3 accepted papers

2023

On a Voter Model with Context-Dependent Opinion Adoption

IJCAI 2023poster

Opinion diffusion is a crucial phenomenon in social networks, often underlying the way in which a collection of agents develops a consensus on relevant decisions. Voter models are well-known theoretical models to study opinion spreading in social networks and structured populations. Their simplest…

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2023

On the Role of Memory in Robust Opinion Dynamics

IJCAI 2023poster

We investigate opinion dynamics in a fully-connected system, consisting of n agents, where one of the opinions, called correct, represents a piece of information to disseminate. One source agent initially holds the correct opinion and remains with this opinion throughout the execution. The goal of…

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2020

Biased Opinion Dynamics: When the Devil is in the Details

IJCAI 2020poster

We investigate opinion dynamics in multi-agent networks when there exists a bias toward one of two possible opinions; for example, reflecting a status quo vs a superior alternative. Starting with all agents sharing an initial opinion representing the status quo, the system evolves in steps. In e…

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