Mapping the q-voter model: From a single chain to complex networks
Authored by Katarzyna Sznajd-Weron, Arkadiusz Jedrzejewski, Janusz Szwabinski
Date Published: 2016
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2015.11.005
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National Science Centre (NCN)
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Abstract
We propose and compare six different ways of mapping the modified
q-voter model to complex networks. Considering square lattices, Barabasi-Albert, Watts-Strogatz and real Twitter networks, we ask the
question if always a particular choice of the group of influence of a
fixed size q leads to different behavior at the macroscopic level. Using
Monte Carlo simulations we show that the answer depends on the relative
average path length of the network and for real-life topologies the
differences between the considered mappings may be negligible. (C) 2015
Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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