External Bias and Opinion Clustering in Cooperative Networks

IF 4.8 2区计算机科学 Q1 AUTOMATION & CONTROL SYSTEMS

Automatica Pub Date : 2025-02-24 DOI:10.1016/j.automatica.2025.112224

Akshay Nagesh Kamthe, Vishnudatta Thota, Aashi Shrinate, Twinkle Tripathy

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Abstract

In this work, we consider a group of

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agents which interact with each other in a cooperative framework. A Laplacian-based model is proposed to govern the evolution of opinions in the group when the agents are subjected to external biases like agents’ traits, news, etc. The objective of the paper is to design a control input which leads to any desired opinion clustering even in the presence of external bias factors. Further, we also determine the conditions which ensure the reachability to any arbitrary opinion states. Note that all of these results hold for any kind of graph structure. Finally, some numerical simulations are discussed to validate these results.

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Automatica 工程技术-工程：电子与电气

CiteScore

10.70

自引率

7.80%

发文量

617

审稿时长

5 months

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