Impact of social network structures on uncertain opinion formation
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- Journal Article
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- IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, 2019, 6 (4), pp. 670 - 679
- Issue Date:
- 2019-08-01
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© 2019 IEEE. When people express their opinions about a certain issue, they often give uncertain opinions rather than exact opinions. Particularly, these uncertain opinions will evolve in social networks. Therefore, in this paper, we focus on investigating uncertain opinion formation with social networks under bounded confidence. Specifically, we define the uncertain opinions by numerical interval opinions, whose ranges are between zero and one, and the larger width of numerical interval opinions means the more uncertainty of the opinions. Meanwhile, we describe social network structures by ER random graphs with different agents' scales and network connected probabilities. Then, we present the detailed simulation experiments to reveal the strong impact of social network structures on uncertain opinion formation. Simulation results show that: 1) larger agents' scales will yield the smaller ratios of agents expressing the uncertain opinions and larger average widths of uncertain opinions; 2) the average stable time starts increasing and then decreases with the increase in the network connected probabilities; and 3) larger network connected probabilities will yield less opinion clusters and the smaller ratios of the extremely small clusters in all clusters. The obtained results are helpful for the government and public opinion management departments to understand and manage uncertain public opinion evolution effectively.
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