Essays about: "Samuel Selleck"

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  1. 1. Reducing Polarization in Opinion Networks in the Presence of Stubborn Leaders

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för reglerteknik

    Author : Samuel Selleck; [2022]
    Keywords : Technology and Engineering;

    Abstract : We study the problem of reducing polarization (variance) of opinions at stationarity in a directed weighted graph with node set divided into two groups: stubborn, initialized with a fixed opinion and regular who repeatedly update their opinion to the average of their out-neighbors, known as the DeGroot model with stubborn nodes. We show how the polarization can be minimized for a number of simple constraints, but that the problem in general is not convex. READ MORE