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   <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">setsci</journal-id>
   <journal-title-group>
    <journal-title>Setsci conference indexing system</journal-title>
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   <issn>2618-6446</issn>
   <publisher>
    <publisher-name>SET Technology</publisher-name>
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   <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">84256ab1-dcfc-4a2f-b066-2bb284705dc4</article-id>
   <title-group>
    <article-title>A Stochastic Binary Opinion Model</article-title>
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   <contrib-group>
    <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes">
     <name>
      <surname>Tay &#13;
Stamoulas</surname>
      <given-names>Serap</given-names>
     </name>
     <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/>
    </contrib>
    <contrib contrib-type="author">
     <name>
      <surname>Rathinam </surname>
      <given-names>Muruhan </given-names>
     </name>
     <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2"/>
    </contrib>
   </contrib-group>
   <aff id="aff1">
    <institution>Department of Mathematics, Dicle University </institution>
   </aff>
   <aff id="aff2">
    <institution>Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland </institution>
   </aff>
   <pub-date date-type="pub">
    <day>23</day>
    <month>06</month>
    <year>2018</year>
   </pub-date>
   <volume>2</volume>
   <fpage>89</fpage>
   <lpage>89</lpage>
   <permissions>
    <copyright-statement>© 2018 SET Technology</copyright-statement>
    <copyright-year>2018</copyright-year>
    <copyright-holder>SET Technology</copyright-holder>
    <license xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">
     <license-p>CC BY 4.0</license-p>
    </license>
   </permissions>
   <abstract>
    <p>With the development of technology and growth of social networking among individuals, the quantitative study of social dynamics has attracted a great interest from researchers. In this study, we propose a stochastic binary opinion model where agents are considered to hold an opinion of ``yes&quot; or ``no&quot; at each moment. In this model, the number of agents with opinion ``yes&quot; at time t  is considered to be a birth-death process, and the configuration of the opinions at each moment is determined by a probability distribution. The rate an agent changes his/her opinion depends on the influence of the group's current state on the agent, given with a social-impact function, and a scalar self-motivation coefficient. We analyze the stationary probabilities with regard to the social-impact function and the self- motivation coefficient. We present numerical results showing the cases of the dominance of an opinion as well as of balanced opinions. &#13;
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   </abstract>
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    <kwd>Social Dynamics, Stochastic Models, Asymptotic analysis</kwd>
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   <kwd-group xml:lang="en">
    <kwd>Social Dynamics, Stochastic Models, Asymptotic analysis</kwd>
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