Opinion control in complex networks

Opinion control in complex networks

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In many political elections, the electorate appears to be a composite of partisan and independent voters.Given that partisans are not likely to convert to a different party, an important goal for a political party could be to mobilize independent voters toward the party with the help of strong leadership, mass media, partisans, and the effects of peer-to-peer influence.Based on the exact solution of classical voter model dynamics in the presence of perfectly partisan voters la rams crop top (i.

e., zealots), we propose a computational method that uses pinning control strategy to maximize the share of a party in a social network of independent voters.The party, corresponding to the controller or zealots, optimizes the nodes to be controlled given the information google pixel 7 freedom about the connectivity of independent voters and the set of nodes that the opposing party controls.

We show that controlling hubs is generally a good strategy, but the optimized strategy is even better.The superiority of the optimized strategy is particularly eminent when the independent voters are connected as directed (rather than undirected) networks.