Bounded Confidence under Preferential Flip: A Coupled Dynamics of Structural Balance and Opinions
Fig 3
Number of different opinions Nop in final balanced configurations as a function of the bounded confidence parameter ε for 40 agents and p = 0.1.
The grey curve corresponds to the BC model and the black curve to the BC-PF model. The curves represent the mean value of Nop in 8 simulations with random initial opinions. The initial links are also set at random with equal probability for friendship (+1) and for enmity (-1). The vertical bars indicate the maximum and minimum values of Nop in the 8 simulations.