Consensus in opinion formation processes in fully evolving environments

V Auletta, A Fanelli, D Ferraioli - Proceedings of the AAAI conference on …, 2019 - ojs.aaai.org
Friedkin and Johnsen (1990) modeled opinion formation in social networks as a dynamic
process which evolves in rounds: at each round each agent updates her expressed opinion …

Information retention in heterogeneous majority dynamics

V Auletta, I Caragiannis, D Ferraioli, C Galdi… - Web and Internet …, 2017 - Springer
A dynamics retains a specific information about the starting state of a networked multi-player
system if this information can be computed from the state of the system also after several …

Social pressure in opinion games

D Ferraioli, C Ventre - … of the Twenty-Sixth International Joint …, 2017 - repository.essex.ac.uk
Motivated by privacy and security concerns in online social networks, we study the role of
social pressure in opinion games. These are games, important in economics and sociology …

On the effectiveness of social proof recommendations in markets with multiple products

V Auletta, D Ferraioli, G Greco - ECAI 2020, 2020 - ebooks.iospress.nl
The social proof marketing strategy assumes that the marketer provides a novel product for
free to some users of a social network and then promptly recommends the product to other …

Opinion dynamics with limited information

D Fotakis, V Kandiros, V Kontonis… - … Conference on Web and …, 2018 - Springer
We study opinion formation games based on the Friedkin-Johnsen (FJ) model. We are
interested in simple and natural variants of the FJ model that use limited information …

Opinion formation games with aggregation and negative influence

M Epitropou, D Fotakis, M Hoefer… - Theory of Computing …, 2019 - Springer
In this paper, we study continuous opinion formation games with aggregation aspects. In
many domains, expressed opinions of people are not only affected by local interaction and …

Manipulating an election in social networks through edge addition

V Auletta, D Ferraioli, V Savarese - AI* IA 2019–Advances in Artificial …, 2019 - Springer
We investigate the effects that social influence can have on the behaviour of agents in a
social network in the context of an election. In particular, we study how the structure of a …

ONE-M: Modeling the Co-evolution of Opinions and Network Connections

A Nigam, K Shin, A Bahulkar, B Hooi, D Hachen… - Machine Learning and …, 2019 - Springer
How do opinions of individuals on controversial issues such as marijuana and gay marriage
and their underlying social network connections evolve over time? Do people alter their …

On the impact of social media recommendations on opinion consensus

V Auletta, A Coppola, D Ferraioli - … Conference of the Italian Association for …, 2021 - Springer
We consider a discrete opinion formation problem in a setting where agents are influenced
by both information diffused by their social relations and from recommendations received …

On the Impact of Social Media Recommendations on Consensus of Discrete Opinions

V Auletta, A Coppola, D Ferraioli - 2023 - researchsquare.com
We consider a discrete opinion formation problem in social networks in a setting where
agents are influenced by both information diffused by their social relations and from …