Eur. Phys. J. B 38, 339-343 (2004)
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2004-00126-9

Bounded confidence and social networks

Laboratoire de Physique Statistique (Laboratoire associé au CNRS (URA 1306), à l'ENS et aux Universités Paris 6/7) de l'École Normale Supérieure, 24 rue Lhomond, 75231 Paris Cedex 5, France

Corresponding author: ^a weisbuch@lps.ens.fr

Received: 27 October 2003
Revised: 9 January 2004
Published online: 14 May 2004

Abstract

In the so-called bounded confidence model proposed by Deffuant et al, agents can influence each other's opinion provided that the opinions are already sufficiently close enough. We discuss here the influence of possible social network topologies on the dynamics of this model.