EMERGING STRUCTURES IN SOCIAL NETWORKS GUIDED BY OPINIONS' EXCHANGES

In this paper, we show that the small world and weak ties phenomena can spontaneously emerge in a social network of interacting agents. This dynamics is simulated in the framework of a simplified model of opinion diffusion in an evolving social network where agents are made to interact, possibly update their beliefs and modify the social relationships according to the opinion exchange.

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Year of publication:	2011
Authors:	CARLETTI, TIMOTEO ; RIGHI, SIMONE ; FANELLI, DUCCIO
Published in:	Advances in Complex Systems (ACS). - World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., ISSN 1793-6802. - Vol. 14.2011, 01, p. 13-30
Publisher:	World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.
Subject:	Opinion dynamics \| social network \| small world \| weak ties

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Type of publication:	Article
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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