Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
How to Achieve Consensus in Society?
Student Seminar
Speaker:
Tapan Shah
Organiser:
John Barretto
Date:
Friday, 2 Mar 2012, 15:00 to 16:30
Venue:
AG-69
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Abstract:
I will introduce a very simple social interaction model of information transmission, opinion formation and consensus formation by De Groot. We will study sufficient and necessary conditions to converge to a consensus in very simple networks. Building on this, I will introduce how we can modify the model to make it resemble real life networks. If time permits, I will try to show how the convergence is affected when interaction is noisy.
| Speaker: | Tapan Shah |
| Organiser: | John Barretto |
| Date: | Friday, 2 Mar 2012, 15:00 to 16:30 |
| Venue: | AG-69 |
(Scan to add to calendar)
Abstract:
I will introduce a very simple social interaction model of information transmission, opinion formation and consensus formation by De Groot. We will study sufficient and necessary conditions to converge to a consensus in very simple networks. Building on this, I will introduce how we can modify the model to make it resemble real life networks. If time permits, I will try to show how the convergence is affected when interaction is noisy.