Strategic network formation involving information sources, aggregators, and consumers

摘要

Described is a system for modeling strategic network formation. A network formation model is generated using a concatenation of joint strategies s of a set of N agents, such that s=s_Ss_As_C. The N agents include a group of source agents N_S, a group of aggregator agents N_A, and a group of consumer agents N_C, each group of agents having a distinct joint strategy for accessing a set of information. s_S represents a joint strategy of the group of source agents, s_A represents a joint strategy of the group of aggregator agents, and s_C represents a joint strategy of the group of consumer agents. The network formation model is operated according to the joint strategies of the set of N agents. Data relating to the set of N agents of the network formation model is output for the investigation of the formation of information diffusion networks.