Title :
Systems analysis and modeling of opinion infection
Author :
Liu, Yijun ; GU, CJifa
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Policy & Manage., Chinese Acad. of Sci., Beijing
Abstract :
Harmonious opinion is indispensable to harmonious society. Opinion can be used as the barometer or wind vane to judge social stability and harmony. Understanding and capturing the essential mechanism of opinion infection will provide help for forecasting and macroeconomic regulation. Society is an open complex giant system, in which controlling opinion infection based on the essential mechanism is a more complex system engineering project. This paper presents one overall model of methodology - method - technology - simulation from the view of systems science besides going through the perspective of the different disciplines on opinion, then aims to explore some new perspectives, new methods and new ideas on opinion infection, and provides theoretical and methodological support for building harmonious opinion.
Keywords :
forecasting theory; macroeconomics; social sciences; forecasting; harmonious opinion; harmonious society; macroeconomic regulation; opinion infection; social harmony; social stability; systems analysis; systems modeling; systems science; Collaboration; Mediation; Ontologies; Resource description framework; Social network services; Standards organizations; Tagging; Web sites; Wikipedia; YouTube; Wuli-Shili-Renli; meta-synthesis approach; opinion infection;
Conference_Titel :
Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 2008. SMC 2008. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Singapore
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2383-5
Electronic_ISBN :
1062-922X
DOI :
10.1109/ICSMC.2008.4811323