Graph-Theoretic Analysis of Belief System Dynamics under Logic Constraints.

ABSTRACT: Opinion formation cannot be modeled solely as an ideological deduction from a set of principles; rather, repeated social interactions and logic constraints among statements are consequential in the construct of belief systems. We address three basic questions in the analysis of social opinion dynamics: (i) Will a belief system converge? (ii) How long does it take to converge? (iii) Where does it converge? We provide graph-theoretic answers to these questions for a model of opinion dynamics of a belief system with logic constraints. Our results make plain the implicit dependence of the convergence properties of a belief system on the underlying social network and on the set of logic constraints that relate beliefs on different statements. Moreover, we provide an explicit analysis of a varie

SUBMITTER: Nedic A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6586829 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature