Opinion Dynamics and Stubbornness Via Multi-Population Mean-Field Games

Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications

Volumn 170, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 266-293

  Bauso, Dario ^a,b   Pesenti, Raffaele ^c   Tolotti, Marco ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^c CA' FOSCARI UNIVERSITY OF VENICE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Consensus; Heterogeneous populations; Mean field games; Opinion dynamics; Stubbornness

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICS; FOKKER PLANCK EQUATION; GAME THEORY; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

CONSENSUS; HETEROGENEOUS POPULATIONS; LOCAL INTERACTIONS; MEAN-FIELD GAMES; MULTI POPULATION; OPINION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GAMES; RATIONAL AGENTS; STUBBORNNESS; UNIFIED FRAMEWORK;

RANDOM PROCESSES;

EID: 84955303760     PISSN: 00223239     EISSN: 15732878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10957-016-0874-5     Document Type: Article

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