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Informational influence and informational control models in social networks

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We model the forming and dynamics of opinions in a social network with Markov chains. We set and solve, for a number of special cases, the problems of controlling agent opinions and game-theoretic problems of informational conflict.

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    D. A. Gubanov, D. A. Novikov & A. G. Chkhartishvili

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Original Russian Text © D.A. Gubanov, D.A. Novikov, A.G. Chkhartishvili, 2009, published in Problemy Upravleniya, 2009, No. 5, pp. 28–35.

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Gubanov, D.A., Novikov, D.A. & Chkhartishvili, A.G. Informational influence and informational control models in social networks. Autom Remote Control 72, 1557–1567 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0005117911070216

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