Applying Relation Algebra and RelView to Measures in a Social Network

Rudolf Berghammer (), Agnieszka Rusinowska and Harrie de Swart ()
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Rudolf Berghammer: Institut fur Informatik Christian-Albrechts-Universitat Kiel, Germany
Harrie de Swart: Department of Philosophy, Tilburg University, The Netherlands

No 902, Working Papers from Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Economique Lyon St-Étienne (GATE Lyon St-Étienne), Université de Lyon

Abstract: We present an application of relation algebra to measure players strength in a social network with influence between players. In particular, we deal with power, success, and influence of a player as measured by the Hoede-Bakker index, its generalization and modifications, and by the influence indices. We also apply relation algebra to determine followers of a coalition and the kernel of an influence function. This leads to specifications, which can be executed with the help of the BDDbased tool RelView after a simple translation into the toolís programming language. As an example we consider the present Dutch parliament.

Keywords: RelView; relation algebra; social network; the Hoede-Bakker index; influence index; follower; kernel (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C63 C88 D72 D85 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 29 pages
Date: 2009
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-net and nep-soc
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