Interchangeability of Knowledge and Opinion Integration Strategies in Collective Models

Knowledge diffusion and opinion formation are important research topics in the area of communication in social networks. We present our generic model with interchangeable variants for processing messages from other members of the group. We describe several generic aspects of communication, like learning, persuasion, or polarization, and apply them in our model. We then show how this simple change leads to different results for the communication process of the whole group. We show how the model with interchangeable integration strategies is applicable for modeling various aspects of online social network and real life communication.