The Effect of Different Strategies and the Structure on Opinion Formation

Table 1

Symbol table.

Symbol	Description
N	The number of nodes in the entire network
Y	The number of opinions
M	The number of nodes of the small community
K	The average number of edges for every node
L	The number of edges for the nodes in the small community
P	The proportion of the first way of the process
𝑡	Time (or the number of the steps)
𝑂𝑥	The opinion of node x
𝛼,𝛽,𝜙,𝜑,𝜃,…	The different opinion
𝑛𝑥𝛼	The number of nodes that have the opinion 𝛼 and connect to the node x
𝑛𝑥	The number of nodes which connect to the node x
𝜌	The probability for small community to win