Cooperation and Competition among information on social networks

Abstract

When multiple information are spread on social networks, there may be Cooperation and Competition among these information. Based on a new spreading model of multiple information, we studied Cooperation and Competition in information spreading, and analyzed the influence of different factors on Cooperation and Competition. Through a large number of computer simulation experiments, we found that: (1) when multiple information are spread on social networks, there is Cooperation and Competition among these information; (2) the smaller the distance between two information sources is, the stronger the Cooperation and Competition among these information are; (3) the greater the value of social reinforcement is, the stronger the Cooperation and Competition among these information are; (4) the weaker the human heterogeneity of one information is, the stronger the Cooperation and Competition among this information and other information are.