Opinion formation with time-varying bounded confidence related to the node degree

SIMULATION ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 95 (3) ◽  
pp. 219-229
Author(s):  
Zhang Yunhong ◽  
Liu Qipeng ◽  
Ding Lin ◽  
Zhang Siying
Keyword(s):  
Small Groups ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Network Size ◽  
The Other ◽  
Node Degree ◽  
Time Varying ◽  
Opinion Formation ◽  
Bounded Confidence ◽  
Number Of Individuals ◽  
Opinion Dynamic

People like to communicate with others who have similar opinions in daily life. “Open” individuals are willing to accept peers’ opinions, whereas “conservative” individuals are more closed to others’ opinions. Based on this reality, an opinion dynamic model is proposed with a time-varying trust threshold related to the node degree, which refers to the number of individuals that can be communicated directly. Similar opinions within the trust thresholds at the beginning will eventually form a consensus opinion. Individuals who have common neighbors converge to consensus faster than ones who have no common neighbors. The network size impacts the convergent speed of the opinion cluster and the trust threshold cluster. Individuals in small groups are more stressed than in large ones when they try to insist their opinions. A group with half of the individuals categorized as doubting and the other half categorized as trusting exhibits consistent confidence but experiences difficulty in reaching a consensus: “harmony but difference” may be a criterion for unifying a group.

scholarly journals Opinion formation with time-varying bounded confidence

PLoS ONE ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. e0172982 ◽  
Author(s):  
YunHong Zhang ◽  
QiPeng Liu ◽  
SiYing Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Time Varying ◽  
Opinion Formation ◽  
Bounded Confidence

Measuring the role of two competing groups of informed agents in opinion formation

SIMULATION ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 95 (8) ◽  
pp. 753-766
Author(s):  
Kamal S Selim ◽  
Ahmed E Okasha ◽  
Fatma R Farag
Keyword(s):  
Opinion Dynamics ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Characteristics ◽  
Opinion Formation ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Bounded Confidence ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Bounded Confidence Model

For politicians, to promote intended messages to different groups of individuals, they could employ strategic individuals called “informed agents.” The aim of this article is to explore and measure the impact of two competing groups of informed agents on opinion dynamics within a society exposed to two extreme opinions. Thus, an agent-based model is developed as an extension to the bounded confidence model by assuming the existence of two groups of informed agents. The impact of these agents with respect to their social characteristics, such as, their size in the society, how tolerant they are, their self-weight and attitudes about others’ opinions is explored. Different assumptions about the initial opinion distributions and their effect are also investigated. Due to the difficulty of observing a real society, social simulation experiments are constructed based on artificial societies.The simulations conducted resulted in some interesting findings. With no dominating group of the two informed agents, the society will be ended up concentrated around a moderate position. On the other hand, with significant difference between the two group sizes, the larger group will polarize the population towards its opinion. However, this conclusion will not apply if the population is skewed towards the other opinion. In such case, the larger group will only succeed to turn some of the society to be more moderate. In a society skewed towards extreme opinion, dominant informed agents adopting the other extreme will not be able to shift the society towards their opinion. Finally, in radical societies informed agents could turn most of the society to be extremists.

PENGGUNAAN RINFOCAL SEBAGAI APLIKASI PENGINGAT (REMINDER) KEGIATAN AKADEMIK PADA PERGURUAN TINGGI

CCIT Journal ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-26
Author(s):  
Indri Handayani ◽  
Qurotul Aini ◽  
Yessy Oktavyanti
Keyword(s):  
Daily Life ◽  
Human Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
Digital Form ◽  
Mind Mapping ◽  
Literature Reviews ◽  
Schedule Time

      Progress of technology and its developed is going so rapidly nowadays and it provide big affect on human life, some of them were education and daily life. Due to its development we also know the other form of calendar which is in digital form that we usually found in gadgets such as handphone or tablets and surely it is portable. Rinfo which is an email supporting facilities for the needs of Raharja College may help Pribadi Raharja in coordination and communication about task and/or event. Rinfo has some applications that integrated with Rinfo itself, such as RinfoGroup, RinfoSites, RinfoDocs, RinfoDrive, RinfoH and RinfoCal. RinfoCal is an calendar application that can be use as schedule time reminder application and it will send any reminder not only to one person but some or couple persons. RinfoCal may sent an pop-up notification or email notification. This paper will discuss about what is RinfoCal, how to use it, what’s the purpose of using RinfoCal, benefit of RinfoCal and so on. But, instead of its benefit, there are also some shortages including many people who using Rinfo doesn’t get the benefit of RinfoCal because they just pretending that RinfoCal is just an usual calendar.  This paper also present six problems from conventional reminder that will solved by RinfoCal fews are just doing reminders only once at a time or just remembering only one person, a mind mapping to simplify the analyze of problem and make the best solution, eight literature reviews that had been done to help analyzing problems of research. 

TARP DVIEJŲ KOLONŲ: XVIII A. PABAIGOS – XIX A. PRADŽIOS VILNIAUS MASONŲ KASDIENYBĖ SIMBOLIKOJE

2018 ◽  
pp. 144-163
Author(s):  
Daiva Milinkevičiūtė
Keyword(s):  
Daily Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
Daily Routine ◽  
The Past ◽  
Secular World ◽  
National Characteristics ◽  
Conservative Christian ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The One ◽  
Craft Guilds

The Age of Enlightenment is defined as the period when the universal ideas of progress, deism, humanism, naturalism and others were materialized and became a golden age for freemasons. It is wrong to assume that old and conservative Christian ideas were rejected. Conversely, freemasons put them into new general shapes and expressed them with the help of symbols in their daily routine. Symbols of freemasons had close ties with the past and gave them, on the one hand, a visible instrument, such as rituals and ideas to sense the transcendental, and on the other, intense gnostic aspirations. Freemasons put in a great amount of effort to improve themselves and to create their identity with the help of myths and symbols. It traces its origins to the biblical builders of King Solomon’s Temple, the posterity of the Templar Knights, and associations of the medieval craft guilds, which were also symbolical and became their link not only to each other but also to the secular world. In this work we analysed codified masonic symbols used in their rituals. The subject of our research is the universal Masonic idea and its aspects through the symbols in the daily life of the freemasons in Vilnius. Thanks to freemasons’ signets, we could find continuity, reception, and transformation of universal masonic ideas in the Lithuanian freemasonry and national characteristics of lodges. Taking everything into account, our article shows how the universal idea of freemasonry spread among Lithuanian freemasonry, and which forms and meanings it incorporated in its symbols. The objective of this research is to find a universal Masonic idea throughout their visual and oral symbols and see its impact on the daily life of the masons in Vilnius. Keywords: Freemasonry, Bible, lodge, symbols, rituals, freemasons’ signets.

State of Fashion: Searching for the New Luxury

APRIA Journal ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-16
Author(s):  
José Teunissen
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Life Cycles ◽  
The Other ◽  
Century Model ◽  
Cocktail Party ◽  
The Public ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One

In the last few years, it has often been said that the current fashion system is outdated, still operating by a twentieth-century model that celebrates the individualism of the 'star designer'. In I- D, Sarah Mower recently stated that for the last twenty years, fashion has been at a cocktail party and has completely lost any connection with the public and daily life. On the one hand, designers and big brands experience the enormous pressure to produce new collections at an ever higher pace, leaving less room for reflection, contemplation, and innovation. On the other hand, there is the continuous race to produce at even lower costs and implement more rapid life cycles, resulting in disastrous consequences for society and the environment.

scholarly journals Grasp to See—Object Classification Using Flexion Glove with Support Vector Machine

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 1461
Author(s):  
Shun-Hsin Yu ◽  
Jen-Shuo Chang ◽  
Chia-Hung Dylan Tsai
Keyword(s):  
Support Vector Machine ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Object Classification ◽  
Target Object ◽  
The Other ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Dark Space ◽  
Flex Sensors ◽  
Shape And Size

This paper proposes an object classification method using a flexion glove and machine learning. The classification is performed based on the information obtained from a single grasp on a target object. The flexion glove is developed with five flex sensors mounted on five finger sleeves, and is used for measuring the flexion of individual fingers while grasping an object. Flexion signals are divided into three phases, and they are the phases of picking, holding and releasing, respectively. Grasping features are extracted from the phase of holding for training the support vector machine. Two sets of objects are prepared for the classification test. One is printed-object set and the other is daily-life object set. The printed-object set is for investigating the patterns of grasping with specified shape and size, while the daily-life object set includes nine objects randomly chosen from daily life for demonstrating that the proposed method can be used to identify a wide range of objects. According to the results, the accuracy of the classifications are achieved 95.56% and 88.89% for the sets of printed objects and daily-life objects, respectively. A flexion glove which can perform object classification is successfully developed in this work and is aimed at potential grasp-to-see applications, such as visual impairment aid and recognition in dark space.

scholarly journals Global-Local Enhancement Network for NMF-Aware Sign Language Recognition

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Hezhen Hu ◽  
Wengang Zhou ◽  
Junfu Pu ◽  
Houqiang Li
Keyword(s):  
Sign Language ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
Challenging Problem ◽  
Language Recognition ◽  
Local Enhancement ◽  
Sign Language Recognition ◽  
Vocabulary Size ◽  
Hand Gestures ◽  
Fine Grained

Sign language recognition (SLR) is a challenging problem, involving complex manual features (i.e., hand gestures) and fine-grained non-manual features (NMFs) (i.e., facial expression, mouth shapes, etc .). Although manual features are dominant, non-manual features also play an important role in the expression of a sign word. Specifically, many sign words convey different meanings due to non-manual features, even though they share the same hand gestures. This ambiguity introduces great challenges in the recognition of sign words. To tackle the above issue, we propose a simple yet effective architecture called Global-Local Enhancement Network (GLE-Net), including two mutually promoted streams toward different crucial aspects of SLR. Of the two streams, one captures the global contextual relationship, while the other stream captures the discriminative fine-grained cues. Moreover, due to the lack of datasets explicitly focusing on this kind of feature, we introduce the first non-manual-feature-aware isolated Chinese sign language dataset (NMFs-CSL) with a total vocabulary size of 1,067 sign words in daily life. Extensive experiments on NMFs-CSL and SLR500 datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of our method.

Literature, Media and Market

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 2176-2178
Author(s):  
Dr. Jnanee Debasish Mishra
Keyword(s):  
Daily Life ◽  
Great Influence ◽  
The Other ◽  
Media Ethics ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Market Communication ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Market

Synopsis: Literature is the medicine for man and civilization for years. It attracts and affects the soul and mind. In modern times transformation of media makes a big difference in human approach. Though Communication is the primary aim of media, but it works like a window of conscience. In the age of globalization the media has a great influence on society. Though market is an economical concept but our daily life is bound to rely upon it. And now literature, media and market remain in an inter related manner. One affects the other two. This analysis tries to find out the inter relationship among literature, media and market. Keywords: Literature, Media, Market, Communication, Globalization, Literary Sensibility, Media ethics, Change in media approach

scholarly journals DESIGN OF THE USABILITY MEASUREMENT TOOL FOR MULTIMODAL MOBILE APPLICATIONS

2015 ◽  
Vol 77 (29) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmed Sheikh Abdullah Al-Aidaroos ◽  
Ariffin Abdul Mutalib
Keyword(s):  
User Interface ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Mobile Applications ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Measurement Tool ◽  
Evaluation Instrument ◽  
Voice Call ◽  
Goal Question Metric

Nowadays, mobile phones provide not just voice call and messaging services, but plethora of other services. Those computational capabilities allow mobile phones to serve people in various areas including education, banking, commerce, travelling, and other daily life aspects. Meanwhile, the number of mobile phone users has increased dramatically in the last decade. On the other hand, the usability of an application can usually be verified through the user interface. Therefore, this paper aims to design a measurement tool to evaluate the usability of mobile applications based on the usability attributes and dimensions that must be considered in the interface. To obtain the appropriate attributes, a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) has been conducted and the Goal Question Metric (GQM) has been used to design the tool. From 261 related works only 18 most relevant ones were selected, through four SLR. 25 dimensions were found through the SLR, but some of these dimensions are synonymous or a part of other dimensions. Consequently, three dimensions must be included in any usability evaluation instrument, which is broken down into ten sub dimensions.

scholarly journals CULTURAL REPRESENTATION OF POWER AND THE COURT DURING THE PERSONAL REIGN OF CHARLES I STUART

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 104-110
Author(s):  
L. I. Ivonina
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
General Trend ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Cultural Representation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Charles I ◽  
The World ◽  
King Charles I ◽  
History Of ◽  
The One

The article analyzes the main features of the Caroline era in the history of Britain, which were reflected in the cultural representation of the power of King Charles I Stuart and the court’s daily life in the 1630s. The author shows that, on the one hand, the cult of peace and the greatness of the monarch were the cultural product of the Caroline court against the background of the Thirty Years' War in continental Europe. On the other hand, there was a spread of various forms of escapism, the departure into the world of illusions. On the whole, the representation of the power of Charles Stuart and the court’s daily life were in line with the general trend of the time. At the same time, the court of Charles I reflected his personality. Thinly sensing and even determining the artistic tastes of his era, the English king abstracted from its political and social context.

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