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We investigate a model for determining a group choice in an artificial society where each agent determines its own opinion or attitude by communicating with other agents in the neighbor. In the model, (in contrast to Majority Network where agent decide its own opinion by majority in the neighbor) agent does not change opinion, but rather change its attitude (active/inactive) to the opinions depending upon whether or not the opinion conflict with that of majority in the neighbor. In the model, active state affects positively(negatively) through positive(negative) arcs. Active state of an agent means that the agent expresses the opinion in public or acts up to the opinion. If the net effect to an agent from active agents in the neighbor is positive, the agent becomes active; hence active state propagate through the network. We discuss the well-known paradox of voting as an illustrative example for the model. We also conducted simulations on the model to make clear how some parameters can drastically affect the system level behavior of the model. Some implications to the real human society as well as artificial society will be discussed.
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Ishida, Y. (1996). A Model of Group Choice for Artificial Society. In: Asama, H., Fukuda, T., Arai, T., Endo, I. (eds) Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems 2. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-66942-5_13
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