A sequential game-theoretic study of the retweeting behavior in Sina Weibo

Journal of Supercomputing

Volumn 71, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 3301-3319

  Wang, Ru ^a   Cai, Wandong ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

MPE; Retweeting; Sequential game theory; Weibo

Indexed keywords

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

AMOUNT OF INFORMATION; INFORMATION DIFFUSION; MARKOV PERFECT EQUILIBRIUM; MICRO-BLOGGING SERVICES; MPE; RETWEETING; SEQUENTIAL GAMES; WEIBO;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 84940460225     PISSN: 09208542     EISSN: 15730484     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11227-015-1456-2     Document Type: Article

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