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主要任职:公共管理学院副院长
性别:女
毕业院校:北京师范大学
学位:博士
所在单位:公共管理学院
学科:行政管理
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Freezing period strongly impacts the emergence of a global consensus in the voter model
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论文类型:期刊论文
发表时间:2014-01-08
发表刊物:SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
收录刊物:SCIE、PubMed、Scopus
卷号:4
页面范围:3597
ISSN号:2045-2322
摘要:It is well known that human beings do not always change opinions or attitudes, since the duration of interaction with others usually has a significant impact on one's decision-making. Based on this observation, we introduce a freezing period into the voter model, in which the frozen individuals have a weakened opinion switching ability. We unfold the presence of an optimal freezing period, which leads to the fastest consensus, using computation simulations as well as theoretical analysis. We demonstrate that the essence of an accelerated consensus is attributed to the biased random walk of the interface between adjacent opinion clusters. The emergence of an optimal freezing period is robust against the size of the system and the number of distinct opinions. This study is instructive for understanding human collective behavior in other relevant fields.