Model of opinion interactions base on evolutionary game in social network

Abstract

Due to convenient information change at individual level in recent years, social network has become popular platform of information dissemination, more precisely, micro-blog has attracted a lot of attention, thus modeling the real opinion interactions on micro-blog is important. This paper is devoted to apply evolutionary game models to reveal some basic rules and features of opinion interactions in micro-blog. We have divided the users into three different kinds of player with respective payoff. Then the evolutionary game model simulates a group of individuals participating in a discussion, aiming at persuading opponent into an agreement. Our results show some characteristics consistent with facts, and also offer possible explanations for the emergence of some real features. © 2013 Springer-Verlag.