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In this paper we model the opinion dynamics in social groups in combination with adaptation of the connections based on a multicriteria homophily principle. The adaptive network model has been designed according to a Network-Oriented Modeling approach based on temporal-causal networks. The model has been applied to a dataset obtained from a popular social media platform – Instagram, using the official Instagram API. The network model has also been analysed mathematically, which provided evidence that the implemented model does what is expected.
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Kozyreva, O., Pechina, A., Treur, J. (2018). Network-Oriented Modeling of Multi-criteria Homophily and Opinion Dynamics in Social Media. In: Staab, S., Koltsova, O., Ignatov, D. (eds) Social Informatics. SocInfo 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11185. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01129-1_20
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