On the Emergent Behavior of the 2-Choices Dynamics

This short communication presents two recent results [13,14] that study the the emergent behavior of the 2-Choices dynamics, a simple, local, and non-linear stochastic process on networks. We show that the 2-Choices dynamics can be exploited as an efficient distributed algorithm for graph clustering and as a model to explain phenomena in the contexts of sociology, biology, and neuroscience.

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