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Reasoning about opinion dynamics in social networks

Hansen, Jens Ulrik LU (2014) The eleventh conference on logic and the foundations of game and decision theory (LOFT 11)
Abstract
This paper introduces a logic to reason about a well-known model of opinion dynamics in socialnetworks initially developed by Morris DeGroot as well as Keith Lehrer and Carl Wagner. The proposed logic is an extension of Lukasiewicz' famous fuzzy logic with additional equational expressivity, modal operators, machinery from hybrid logic, and dynamic modalities. The model of opinion dynamics in social networks is simple enough to be easily grasped, but still complex enough to have interesting mathematical properties and applications. Thus, developing a logic to reason about this particular model serves as a paradigmatic example of how logic can be useful in social network analysis.
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Proceedings of the eleventh conference on logic and the foundations of game and decision theory (LOFT 11)
editor
Ågotnes, Thomas ; Bonanno, Giacomo and van der Hoek, Wiebe
pages
13 pages
conference name
The eleventh conference on logic and the foundations of game and decision theory (LOFT 11)
conference location
Bergen, Norway
conference dates
2014-07-27 - 2014-07-30
project
Knowledge in a Digital World: Trust, Credibility and Relevance on the Web
language
English
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yes
additional info
http://folk.uib.no/nmita/LOFT11/About.html
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55ddb470-eab1-480f-8a86-f7ee79175c16 (old id 4456893)
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  abstract     = {{This paper introduces a logic to reason about a well-known model of opinion dynamics in socialnetworks initially developed by Morris DeGroot as well as Keith Lehrer and Carl Wagner. The proposed logic is an extension of Lukasiewicz' famous fuzzy logic with additional equational expressivity, modal operators, machinery from hybrid logic, and dynamic modalities. The model of opinion dynamics in social networks is simple enough to be easily grasped, but still complex enough to have interesting mathematical properties and applications. Thus, developing a logic to reason about this particular model serves as a paradigmatic example of how logic can be useful in social network analysis.}},
  author       = {{Hansen, Jens Ulrik}},
  booktitle    = {{Proceedings of the eleventh conference on logic and the foundations of game and decision theory (LOFT 11)}},
  editor       = {{Ågotnes, Thomas and Bonanno, Giacomo and van der Hoek, Wiebe}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  title        = {{Reasoning about opinion dynamics in social networks}},
  year         = {{2014}},
}