Majority-vote model with limited visibility: an investigation into filter bubbles

no code implementations • 26 Aug 2020 • Andre L. M. Vilela, Luiz Felipe C. Pereira, Laercio Dias, H. Eugene Stanley, Luciano R. da Silva

Here, we introduce a visibility parameter $V$ in the dynamics of the majority-vote model, which equals the probability of an individual ignoring the opinion of each one of its neighbors.

Physics and Society Statistical Mechanics

Generalized Entropies and the Similarity of Texts

no code implementations • 11 Nov 2016 • Eduardo G. Altmann, Laercio Dias, Martin Gerlach

This finding allows us to identify the contribution of specific words (and word frequencies) for the different generalized entropies and also to estimate the size of the databases needed to obtain a reliable estimation of the divergences.