Bounded confidence model: addressed information maintain diversity of opinions |
| K. Malarz and K. KuĊakowski
AGH University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science,, al. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Krakow, Poland |
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| A community of agents is subject to a stream of messages, which are represented as points on a plane of issues. Messages are sent by media and by agents themselves. Messages from media shape the public opinion. They are unbiased, i.e. positive and negative opinions on a given issue appear with equal frequencies. In our previous work, the only criterion to receive a message by an agent is if the distance between this message and the ones received earlier does not exceed the given value of the tolerance parameter. Here we introduce a possibility to address a message to a given neighbour. We show that this option reduces the unanimity effect, what improves the collective performance. |
| DOI: 10.12693/APhysPolA.121.B-86 PACS numbers: 87.23.Ge, 07.05.Tp, 64.60.aq |