PERONY, NICOLAS; PFITZNER, RENÉ; SCHOLTES, INGO; … - In: Advances in Complex Systems (ACS) 16 (2013) 06, pp. 1350020-1
We study the role of hierarchical structures in a simple model of collective consensus formation based on the bounded confidence model with continuous individual opinions. For the particular variation of this model considered in this paper, we assume that a bias toward an extreme opinion is...