IMPACT OF OPINIONS AND
RELATIONSHIPS COEVOLVING ON
SELF-ORGANIZATION OF
OPINION CLUSTERS
Songlin Zhang1, 2, Lixue Chen1, Dong Hu1 and Xian Sun1
1Center for Networked System, School of Computer Science, Southwest Petroleum UniversityChengdu, P.R. China
2Department of Computer Engineering, Sichuan College of Architectural Technology
Deyang, P.R. China
| INDECS 11(3), 310-317, 2013 DOI 10.7906/indecs.11.3.1 Full text available here. |
Received: 10 December 2012 |
ABSTRACT
In a social network, individual opinions and interpersonal relationships always interact
and coevolve. This continuously leads to self-organization of opinion clusters in the whole network.
In this article we study how the coevolution on the two kinds of complex networks and the self-organization of opinion
clusters are differently affected by the dynamic parameters, the structural parameters and the propagating parameters. It is
found that the two dynamic parameters are homogeneous bringing about the strong and weak relations, while the two structural
parameters are heterogeneous having equivalent relations. Moreover, the impact of the propagating parameter has been found
only above its threshold.
KEY WORDS
opinion cluster, coevolution, self-organization, opinion propagation, relationship evolving
CLASSIFICATION
JEL: D70, D84
PACS: 89.75.Da, 89.75.Fb