Coupling of sentiment-polarity and opinion in discrete topologies

Abstract

We present here an agent-based model determined by integrate and fire oscillators. These oscillators fire whenever they reach a certain threshold value of its phase and thus interact with their neighbours within an established range, attracting them a definite distance. The behaviour of these agents directly depends on this range of interaction, determining whether the final state becomes completely sparse (fragmentation of opinion), formed by one big cluster (consensus), or halfway between.