Author, as appears in the article.: Wu, Hongrun; Arenas, Alex; Gomez, Sergio
Department: Enginyeria Informàtica i Matemàtiques
URV's Author/s: Arenas Moreno, Alejandro / Gómez Jiménez, Sergio
Keywords: Trust Trees (mathematics) Tree approximation Threshold model Stochastic systems Stochastic models Spreading dynamics Prisoner's dilemma Prisoner dilemma Networked systems Network layers Multiplex networks Memory Information theory Information spreading Information diffusion process Human Heterogeneous networks Diffusion Behavioral research Article
Abstract: The understanding and prediction of information diffusion processes on networks is a major challenge in network theory with many implications in social sciences. Many theoretical advances occurred due to stochastic spreading models. Nevertheless, these stochastic models overlooked the influence of rational decisions on the outcome of the process. For instance, different levels of trust in acquaintances do play a role in information spreading, and actors may change their spreading decisions during the information diffusion process accordingly. Here, we study an information-spreading model in which the decision to transmit or not is based on trust. We explore the interplay between the propagation of information and the trust dynamics happening on a two-layer multiplex network. Actors' trustable or untrustable states are defined as accumulated cooperation or defection behaviors, respectively, in a Prisoner's Dilemma setup, and they are controlled by a memory span. The propagation of information is abstracted as a threshold model on the information-spreading layer, where the threshold depends on the trustability of agents. The analysis of the model is performed using a tree approximation and validated on homogeneous and heterogeneous networks. The results show that the memory of previous actions has a significant effect on the spreading of information. For example, the less memory that is considered, the higher is the diffusion. Information is highly promoted by the emergence of trustable acquaintances. These results provide insight into the effect of plausible biases on spreading dynamics in a multilevel networked system. © 2017 American Physical Society.
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licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
Author's mail: sergio.gomez@urv.cat alexandre.arenas@urv.cat
Author identifier: 0000-0003-1820-0062 0000-0003-0937-0334
Record's date: 2024-09-28
Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion
Link to the original source: https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.95.012301
Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Papper original source: Physical Review e. 95 (1): 012301-
APA: Wu, Hongrun; Arenas, Alex; Gomez, Sergio (2017). Influence of trust in the spreading of information. Physical Review e, 95(1), 012301-. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.95.012301
Article's DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.95.012301
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2017
Publication Type: Journal Publications