Predicting Migration and Opinion Adoption Patterns in Agent Communities

This paper presents an analytical model of a more realistic version of migration behavior and opinion adoption in communities, experimentally evaluated in [1]. The formal model is developed to predict the variation of community sizes over time and the final opinion distributions of agents having binary opinions distributed in communities. We derive and verify predictions from the formal model about the population dynamics using different combinations of each of three migration and adoption tendencies: eager, moderate, and conservative.