TY - JOUR
T1 - A Survey of Game Theory as Applied to Social Networks
AU - Song, Xinfang
AU - Jiang, Wei
AU - Liu, Xiaohui
AU - Lu, Hui
AU - Tian, Zhihong
AU - Du, Xiaojiang
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). All rights reserved.
PY - 2020/12
Y1 - 2020/12
N2 - Social network services can not only help people form relationships and make new friends and partners, but also assist in processing personal information, sharing knowledge, and managing social relationships. Social networks achieve valuable communication and collaboration, bring additional business opportunities, and have great social value. Research on social network problems is effective by using assumption, definition, analysis, modeling, and optimization strategies. In this paper, we survey the existing problems of game theory applied to social networks and classify their application scenarios into four categories: information diffusion, behavior analysis, community detection, and information security. Readers can clearly master knowledge application in every category. Finally, we discuss certain limitations of game theory on the basis of research in recent years and propose future directions of social network research.
AB - Social network services can not only help people form relationships and make new friends and partners, but also assist in processing personal information, sharing knowledge, and managing social relationships. Social networks achieve valuable communication and collaboration, bring additional business opportunities, and have great social value. Research on social network problems is effective by using assumption, definition, analysis, modeling, and optimization strategies. In this paper, we survey the existing problems of game theory applied to social networks and classify their application scenarios into four categories: information diffusion, behavior analysis, community detection, and information security. Readers can clearly master knowledge application in every category. Finally, we discuss certain limitations of game theory on the basis of research in recent years and propose future directions of social network research.
KW - application scenarios
KW - game theory
KW - social network
KW - social value
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U2 - 10.26599/TST.2020.9010005
DO - 10.26599/TST.2020.9010005
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85085137048
SN - 1007-0214
VL - 25
SP - 734
EP - 742
JO - Tsinghua Science and Technology
JF - Tsinghua Science and Technology
IS - 6
ER -