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The Quantum Inspired Modelling of Changing Attitudes and Self-organising Societies

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We utilise the quantum decision models, now well-developed in the QI community, to create a higher order social decision making model. A simple Agent Based Model (ABM) of a society of agents with changing attitudes towards a social issue is presented, where the private attitudes of individuals in the system are represented using a geometric structure inspired by quantum theory. We track the changing attitudes of the members of that society, and their resulting propensities to act, or not, in a given social context. A number of new issues surrounding this “scaling up” of quantum decision theories are discussed, as well as new directions and opportunities.

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  • Attitudes
  • Quantum Decision Theory
  • Context
  • Information Minimisation
  • Self-organisation

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Kitto, K., Boschetti, F., Bruza, P. (2012). The Quantum Inspired Modelling of Changing Attitudes and Self-organising Societies. In: Busemeyer, J.R., Dubois, F., Lambert-Mogiliansky, A., Melucci, M. (eds) Quantum Interaction. QI 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7620. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35659-9_1

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