Information Propagation In Online Social Networks – A Simulation Case Study

Damian FRĄSZCZAK

Military University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland

Abstract

Nowadays, social media platforms are the primary information exchange channel utilised by milliards of people worldwide. These platforms are characterised by quick communication, no effort, being payless and always available for users. These conditions make it easy to spread information from one user to another in close neighbourhoods and around the whole social network located in the given platform. The paper presents the simulation studies around the rumor spread process via the varied range of the networks topologies, information spread strategies and aspects taking part in this process to find relationships between them.

Keywords: online social network, information spread, diffusion, simulation
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