Simulating the interaction of social internet services actors using irregular attractors

Abstract

The high level of popularity of social Internet services has led to new threats to national security due to information operations in the information space of services. The consequences of manipulating the public opinion of social Internet services users may influence social and political processes in the state, disseminating inter-ethnic ideas and interreligious discord, calls for separatism. As a result of the realization of threats to State information security, the interaction of actors in social Internet services may shift to chaotic dynamics. At the same time, chaotic dynamics can be transformed from social Internet services into real life, which will lead to the fueling of public protests, riots, and other events. The development of effective measures to counter such threats to information security by suppressing chaotic dynamics is based on simulations of virtual communities’ interaction in social Internet services. The paper proposes to formalize the interaction of actors in virtual communities as a system of non-linear differential equations that move to chaotic dynamics, using the Rössler model. Modeling of the interaction of actors in social Internet services under the influence of threats to information security has been carried out, and the conditions for their qualitative change have been defined. Bifurcation diagrams have been constructed to identify critical states of the virtual community of actors in which there are uncertainties regarding the choice of an evolutionary trajectory (attractor). The simulation results made it possible to make recommendations on the system’s operating parameters of differential equations. A reduction of the chaotic dynamics is achieved, and the desired parameters of the state of the information space of service are established.