A Time-Varying Model to Simulate a Collective Decisional Problem

Abstract

A group of agents have to decide between two alternatives. At the begining each actor have a preference and a conviction about this preference. During the debate the conviction and the preference of each agent can change under the involved social influences. The theoretical model of this paper is presented in [7], and the influence model is the one presented in [3]. The aims is to present a new dynamical model for collective decisional problems. Moreover the presented model offers additional perspectives for purposes of controlling the debate. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013.