Controllability of a Nonlinear Voter Model

Converging and emerging behavior of different phenomena call for a strongtool to describe the behavior of mutli-agent systems. Economics andquantitative sociology are two of the most important areas where thesebehavioral patterns are observed. In this paper, a brief introduction tostatistical physics is provided as a tool to understand and investigate theupper-mentioned phenomena. Some of the available interaction models usedin quantitative sociology have been presented to get an idea of how theywork. Using one of these models, a discrete nonlinear dynamic system ispresented. Main focus of this paper is providing necessary tools and solutionsfor discrete nonlinear dynamical systems.

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Opinion Dynamics , Statistical Physics , Control , Network , Discrete Systems