Control of Agreement and Disagreement Cascades with Distributed Inputs

Anastasia Bizyaeva, Timothy Sorochkin, Alessio Franci, Naomi Ehrich Leonard

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Abstract

For a group of autonomous communicating agents to carry out coordinated objectives, it is paramount that they can distinguish meaningful input from disturbance, and come rapidly and reliably to agreement or disagreement in response to that input. We study how opinion formation cascades through a group of networked decision makers in response to a distributed input signal. Using a nonlinear opinion dynamics model with dynamic feedback modulation of an attention parameter, we prove how the triggering of an opinion cascade and the collective decision itself depend on both the distributed input and node agreement and disagreement centrality indices, determined by the spectral properties of the network graph. Moreover, we show how the attention dynamics introduce an implicit threshold that distinguishes between distributed inputs that trigger cascades and ones that are rejected as disturbance.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication60th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2021
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages4994-4999
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781665436595
DOIs
StatePublished - 2021
Event60th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2021 - Austin, United States
Duration: Dec 13 2021Dec 17 2021

Publication series

NameProceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
Volume2021-December
ISSN (Print)0743-1546
ISSN (Electronic)2576-2370

Conference

Conference60th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2021
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityAustin
Period12/13/2112/17/21

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Control and Systems Engineering
  • Modeling and Simulation
  • Control and Optimization

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