Meaning of spinson | Babel Free

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An agent in an agent-based model representing a person who holds one of two opposite opinions on a topic (for example, "for" or "against").

Examples

“The evolution of a spinson’s opinion is governed by two different processes: (i) independence and (ii) social and mass-media influence.”

“The model proposed in this work belongs to the ‘rich feature agent’ or ‘complex agent’ categories, in contrast to the simplified ‘spinson’ models.”

“The initial version of the q-voter has N spinsons connected on a complete graph. Among this initial population of spinsons, a q-sized committee is picked at random to influence another randomly selected spinson called a voter. If the committee is homogeneous, then the voter assumes the same value as the spinsons from the lobby; otherwise, it changes its opinion with probability #92;epsilon.”

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