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Social Space in Simulation Models

Social Space in Simulation Models
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Author(s): Davide Nunes (University of Lisbon, Portugal)and Luis Antunes (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Copyright: 2014
Pages: 20
Source title: Interdisciplinary Applications of Agent-Based Social Simulation and Modeling
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Diana Francisca Adamatti (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Brasil), Graçaliz Pereira Dimuro (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Brasil)and Helder Coelho (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-5954-4.ch012

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Abstract

In real world scenarios, the formation of consensus is a self-organisation process by which actors have to make a joint assessment about a target subject, be it a decision making problem or the formation of a collective opinion. In social simulation, models of opinion dynamics tackle the opinion formation phenomena. These models try to make an assessment, for instance, of the ideal conditions that lead an interacting group of agents to opinion consensus, polarisation or fragmentation. This chapter investigates the role of social relation structure in opinion dynamics and consensus formation. The authors present an agent-based model that defines social relations as multiple concomitant social networks and explore multiple interaction games in this structural set-up. They discuss the influence of complex social network topologies where actors interact in multiple distinct networks. The chapter builds on previous work about social space design with multiple social relations to determine the influence of such complex social structures in a process such as opinion formation.

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