Netreason: Reasoning about social networks

摘要

The spread and exchange of information among people has been formally studied in the social sciences since the 1950s. The ways in which we do communicate has changed multiple times since. In particular, since the digitalization of communication methods, the speed of information exchange, the connectivity among people and with artificial agents, the reachability of information contents have all changed. Moreover, we now have an almost permanent record of what knowledge has been communicated, when, by whom. This novel status of information exchange has rapidly become a new field of studies on its own. The understanding of networked communication has thus become ubiquitous in multi-agent systems in AI, in epistemic-social logics and of course in social network analysis. Works that address this challenge are also split across these fields.