With the development of information society and network technology, people increasingly
depend on information found on the Internet. At the same time, the models of information …

Abstract In recent years, Mobile Social Networks (MSNs) have been arising a growing
interest in both scientific and industrial fields for its potential value. The effective data …

Controlling collective behavior has been the key goal of researchers both from the
engineering and physics communities working in the field of control of network systems. In …

Due to the inequality of users'(nodes') status and the influence of external forces in the
progress of the information propagation in a social network, the infected nodes hold different …

In this article, the problem of distributed robust fault estimation (FE) for leader-follower
multiagent systems using relative measurements is considered. A distributed intermediate …

This paper investigates a two-layer coevolution model of collective opinions and actions
under two different control inputs. First, we introduce two control inputs, opinion regulator …

This paper deals with continuous-time opinion dynamics that feature the interplay of
continuous opinions and discrete behaviors. In our model, the opinion of one individual is …

We analyze the competition between two firms when each firm's market share depends on
the average opinion of the consumer population about their respective products. All the …

Social dynamics models may present discontinuities in the right-hand side of the dynamics
for multiple reasons, including topology changes and quantization. Several concepts of …

Empirical studies suggest a deep intertwining between opinion formation and decision-
making processes, but these have been treated as separate problems in the study of …