Coupling Agent-Based Models and Argumentation Framework to Simulate Opinion Dynamics: Application to Vegetarian Diet Diffusion

Taillandier, Patrick; Salliou, Nicolas; Thomopoulos, Rallou

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“…To overcome this limitation, several works such as [8,17,4,15] have proposed the use of the system introduced by Dung [7]. These works illustrate the interest of using such a formalism to represent arguments in the framework of an opinion dynamics model.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…These works illustrate the interest of using such a formalism to represent arguments in the framework of an opinion dynamics model. Among these works, [15] is particularly interesting for us because they propose a complete process of opinion construction from arguments, which allows to easily integrate the heterogeneity of the agents through the explicit representation of the point of view of each agent on certain topics (e.g. environment, economy, etc.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…We therefore propose to take up, within the integrative framework of the theory of planned behavior, the basis of the innovation diffusion model proposed by [6] and to integrate argumentation to represent the cognition of agents. Concerning argumentation, we used a model close to the one proposed by [15] by enriching it to integrate, among other things, the notions of trust in sources.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Arguments are the objects that represent the pieces of information about the innovation that agents can understand and exchange. While Dung considers arguments as abstract objects with no descriptive data, other works propose to extend this concept by adding semantics to arguments [15,16,3]. In this work, we have chosen to use the representation proposed in [15] in which the data composing the argument plays the role of support in the knowledge evaluation.…”

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“…Argumentation deals with situations where information contains contradictions because it comes from several sources or corresponds to several points of view that possibly have different priorities. If several agent-based models already integrate argument exchanges to represent opinion dynamics processes [11,13,18,8,15], to our knowledge, no model proposes to explicitly integrate arguments to simulate the innovation diffusion process.…”

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Better Representing the Diffusion of Innovation Through the Theory of Planned Behavior and Formal Argumentation

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Agent-based simulation has long been used to study the dynamics of adoption and diffusion of innovations. However, the vast majority of these works are limited to an abstract and simplified representation of this process, which does not allow to explain the reasons for the change of opinion of an agent. In order to go further in the explanation of these changes, we present a generic model based on the theory of planned behavior and on formal argumentation. Each agent has the possibility to exchange arguments with another and to build its opinion on an innovation from the set of arguments it knows. An application of the model is proposed to study the adoption of communicating water meters by farmers on the Louts river (South-West of France).

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Consumers’ Motivations Towards Environment-Friendly Dietary Changes: An Assessment of Trends Related to the Consumption of Animal Products

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Salliou

Taillandier

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Handbook of Climate Change Across the Food Supply Chain

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An agent-based model representing the exchanges of arguments to accurately simulate the process of innovation diffusion

Ledoyen¹,

Thomopoulos

Couture³

et al. 2021

2021 RIVF International Conference on Computing and Communication Technologies (RIVF)

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An approach that is particularly well adapted to study the dynamics of adoption and diffusion of innovations is agent-based simulation. It allows modelers to take into account the complex interactions between actors as well as their heterogeneity. Numerous works have already shown the interest of this method for the study of innovation diffusion processes. However, the vast majority of these works have been limited to an abstract and simplified representation of this process. This very abstract representation does not allow users to understand and explain the reasons for the change of opinion of an agent, which is nevertheless fundamental to understanding the dynamics of innovation diffusion. In order to overcome this limitation, we propose an agent-based model of adoption and diffusion of innovations that uses a structured argumentation framework. An application of this model is proposed to study the diffusion of communicating water meters by farmers on the Louts river (South-West of France) and shows that the introduction of new arguments could impact the adoption process.

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Coupling Agent-Based Models and Argumentation Framework to Simulate Opinion Dynamics: Application to Vegetarian Diet Diffusion

Cited by 3 publications

References 28 publications

Better Representing the Diffusion of Innovation Through the Theory of Planned Behavior and Formal Argumentation

Better Representing the Diffusion of Innovation Through the Theory of Planned Behavior and Formal Argumentation

Consumers’ Motivations Towards Environment-Friendly Dietary Changes: An Assessment of Trends Related to the Consumption of Animal Products

An agent-based model representing the exchanges of arguments to accurately simulate the process of innovation diffusion

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