Modelagem e simulação da formação de opinião na sociedade

Abstract

Computer modeling has been gaining ground in the social sciences. Both because they allow a more accurate formalization of social phenomena, and because it recreates social behaviors with greater realism. One of the most characteristic phenomena of a society is the opinion formation of individuals as a given situation of choice. This paper proposes the formalization of social phenomenon of opinion formation between a group of actors where it can only take one or other opinion (dichotomous scenario). For this, we propose an agent-based computational approach to simulate this scenario in order to provide a better understanding of this process.