COMMENT ON "MIXING BELIEFS AMONG INTERACTING AGENTS"
- GÓMEZ-SERRANO, JAVIER Instituto de Ciencias Matemáticas, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, (ICMAT CSIC-UAM-UCM-UC3M), C/Nicolás Cabrera, 13-15, 28049 Madrid, Spain
- LE BOUDEC, JEAN-YVES Laboratory for Computer Communications and Applications 2, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
- 2012-9-27
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- Advances in Complex Systems. - World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt. - 2012, vol. 15, no. 07, p. 1250028
English
We comment on the derivation of the main equation in the bounded confidence model of opinion dynamics. In the original work, the equation is derived using an ad-hoc counting method. We point that the original derivation does contain some small mistake. The mistake does not have a large qualitative impact, but it reveals the danger of the ad-hoc counting method. We show how a more systematic approach, which we call micro to macro, can avoid such mistakes, without adding any significant complexity.
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- DOI 10.1142/s0219525912500282
- ISSN 0219-5259
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