Artificial societies. 2013-2021 ISSN 2077-5180 URL - http://artsoc.jes.su All right reserved Issue 3 Volume 15. 2020 Issue 3 Volume 15 - 2020 On One Approach to Modeling the Situation of Informational Confrontation in a Social Network Boris Toropov Management Academy of the Ministry of the Interior of Russia Russian Federation, Khimki Oleg Filimonov Management Academy of the Ministry of the Interior of Russia Russian Federation, Moscow Abstract Authors of the paper consider information warfare in a social network as a game-theoretic model of confrontation between control centers that fight for the opinions of network participants using motivational influences. A distinctive feature of the work is the application of the game model of Colonel Blotto to the situation under study, but taking into account the neighboring participants’ opinions interdependence in the social network. In order to take this into account, the possibility of using the influence vector of social network participants as a vector of weight coefficients of winnings in the game of Colonel Blotto is considered. The research is conducted using methods known in game theory, graph theory, and combinatorics, as well as sociological approaches to describing the problem under consideration. The paper substantiates the importance of theoretical and applied understanding of such methods by state structures for effective socially-oriented activities in the online space. Keywords list (en): Internet, online communities, social network, information confrontation, Colonel Blotto's game, mutual influence Date of publication: 05.09.2020 Citation link: Filimonov O., Toropov B. On One Approach to Modeling the Situation of Informational Confrontation in a Social Network // Artificial societies. – 2020. – V. 15. – Issue 3 [Electronic resource]. URL: https://artsoc.jes.su/s207751800010821-2-1/ (circulation date: 28.11.2021). DOI: 10.18254/S207751800010821-2