Opinion Dynamics in Heterogeneous Networks

Student: Kirgizova Anastasia

Faculty: HSE Tikhonov Moscow Institute of Electronics and Mathematics (MIEM HSE)

Educational Programme: Applied Mathematics (Bachelor)

Final Grade: 9

Year of Graduation: 2019

The object of this senior thesis is a Friedkin-Johsnen Model of opinion dynamics. Our main goal is to study the impact of random noise on model dynamics. Simulation models of deterministic and stochastic and Friedkin-Jоhnsen models are implemented in Python programming language. The paper analyses the simulation results, the trajectory of the expectation of the vector of opinions with different strength of random noise. It is shown that the system is not ergodic.

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