| Article ID: | iaor20117965 |
| Volume: | 72 |
| Issue: | 7 |
| Start Page Number: | 1557 |
| End Page Number: | 1567 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2011 |
| Journal: | Automation and Remote Control |
| Authors: | Novikov A, Chkhartishvili G, Gubanov A |
| Keywords: | markov processes, simulation: applications, game theory |
We model the forming and dynamics of opinions in a social network with Markov chains. We set and solve, for a number of special cases, the problems of controlling agent opinions and game‐theoretic problems of informational conflict.