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Guillaume Deffuant

Researcher at Local Initiatives Support Corporation

Publications -  104
Citations -  6114

Guillaume Deffuant is an academic researcher from Local Initiatives Support Corporation. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Resilience (network). The author has an hindex of 28, co-authored 101 publications receiving 5379 citations. Previous affiliations of Guillaume Deffuant include University of Auvergne.

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Mixing beliefs among interacting agents

TL;DR: A model of opinion dynamics in which agents adjust continuous opinions as a result of random binary encounters whenever their difference in opinion is below a given threshold is presented.
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How can extremism prevail? A study based on the relative agreement interaction model

TL;DR: A new model of interactions, called relative agreement model, is proposed, which is a variant of the previously discussed bounded confidence and introduces extremist agents by attributing a much lower uncertainty (and thus higher persuasion) to a small proportion of agents at the extremes of the opinion distribution.
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Meet, discuss, and segregate!

TL;DR: A model of opinion dynamics in which agents adjust continuous opinions as a result of random binary encounters whenever their difference in opinion is below a given threshold is presented.
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Manifesto of computational social science

TL;DR: The increasing integration of technology into our lives has created unprecedented volumes of data on society's everyday behaviour, which opens up exciting new opportunities to work towards a quantitative understanding of our complex social systems, within the realms of a new discipline known as Computational Social Science.
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Models of Social Influence: Towards the Next Frontiers

TL;DR: It is proposed that a new generation of empirically-based computational social influence models can make unique contributions for understanding key societal challenges, like the possible effects of social media on societal polarization.