title: Agent-Based Models (Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences)
author: Nigel Gilbert
description: Nigel Gilbert read for a first degree in Engineering, intending to go into the computer industry. However, he was lured into sociology and obtained his doctorate on the sociology of scientific knowledge from the University of Cambridge, under the supervision of Michael Mulkay. His research and teaching interests have reflected his continuing interest in both sociology and computer science (and engineering more widely).<br /><br /> His main research interests are processual theories of social phenomena, the development of computational sociology and the methodology of computer simulation, especially agent-based modelling. He is Director of the Centre for Research in Social Simulation.<br /><br /> He is also Director of the Universitys Institute of Advanced Studies and responsible for its development as a leading centre for intellectual interchange.<br /><br /> He is the author or editor of several textbooks on sociological methods of research and statistics and editor of the Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation.
zlib_text: mathematics
  Article
  The Euler-Equation Approach in Average-Oriented
  Opinion Dynamics †
  Vladimir Mazalov 1,2,‡
  and Elena Parilina 2,3,*,‡
  1
  Institute of Applied Mathematical Research, Karelian Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences,
  11, Pushkinskaya str., 185910 Petrozavodsk, Russia; vmazalov@krc.karelia.ru
  2
  School of Mathematics and Statistics, Qingdao University, Qingdao 266071, China; Institute of Applied
  Mathematics of Shandong, Qingdao 266071, China
  3
  Saint Petersburg State University, 7/9 Universitetskaya nab., 199034 Saint Petersburg, Russia
  *
  Correspondence: e.parilina@spbu.ru
  †
  The work was supported by the Shandong Province “Double-Hundred Talent Plan” (No. WST2017009).
  ‡
  These authors contributed equally to this work.
  Received: 30 December 2019; Accepted: 28 February 2020; Published: 5 March 2020
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  Abstract: We consider the models of average-oriented opinion dynamics. An opinion about an
  event is distributed among the agents of a social network. 