DeffuantWeisbuch
The Deffuant‑Weisbuch model is a simple, agent‑based framework for simulating the evolution of continuous opinions within a population. It was introduced in 2000 by Pierre Deffuant, Réka Weisbuch, and collaborators in a paper titled “Mixing laws in the evolution of a continuous distribution of opinions”. In the model, each individual occupies a point on the real line representing a continuous opinion on a topic of interest.
At each time step a pair of individuals is selected at random. If the distance between their
The model has been widely adopted in the field of sociophysics to study how local interactions and