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The Roles of Environmental Noises and Opinion Leaders in Emergency

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Active Media Technology (AMT 2013)

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This paper proposes a dominant-submissive agent model on bounded confidence opinion dynamics under an emergency environment. In the proposed model, environmental noises and opinion leaders are involved in the collective opinion formation. A series of computer simulations demonstrate that environmental noises have a great impact on the collective opinion evolution. The interactions among individuals are strengthened as the variances of the environmental noises increase, and then a global group behavior emerge with a higher probability. On the other hand, the influence of opinion leaders on the collective opinion dynamics is limited. Firstly, when the fraction of opinion leaders is fixed in the social network, the number of agents following the opinion leaders decreases as the variance of the environmental noise exceeds a certain threshold. Secondly, the number of agents following the opinion leaders does not change obviously as the fraction of opinion leaders increases under a constant noisy environment.

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  1. School of Management and Economics, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, 610054, China

    Yiyi Zhao & Yi Peng

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  1. Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University, N-14 W-9, 060-0814, Sapporo, Japan

    Tetsuya Yoshida

  2. Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Chengdu, China

    Gang Kou

  3. Institute of Mathematics, University of Warsaw, Banacha 2, 02-097, Warsaw, Poland

    Andrzej Skowron

  4. Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong

    Jiannong Cao

  5. Bell Labs, Paris, France

    Hakim Hacid

  6. Department of Life Science and Informatics, Maebashi Institute of Technology, 460-1 Kamisadori-cho, 371-0816, Maebashi, Gunma, Japan

    Ning Zhong

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Zhao, Y., Peng, Y. (2013). The Roles of Environmental Noises and Opinion Leaders in Emergency. In: Yoshida, T., Kou, G., Skowron, A., Cao, J., Hacid, H., Zhong, N. (eds) Active Media Technology. AMT 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8210. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02750-0_24

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