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The cohesiveness of subgroups in social networks: A view from game theory

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  • Daniel Gómez
  • Enrique González–Arangüena
  • Conrado Manuel
  • Guillermo Owen
  • Mónica Pozo
  • Martha Saboyá

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A family of cohesiveness measures, based on game theoretical concepts, is proposed for subgroups in social networks. Given a communication situation, consisting of a coalitional game and a graph, both defined on the same set of players-nodes, cohesiveness of a subset is defined as the proportion of their worth that the players in subset retain, when the originally deterministic (restricted) graph becomes a probabilistic one (in a specific manner). Conditions on the game are given to reach some desirable properties. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2008

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  • Daniel Gómez & Enrique González–Arangüena & Conrado Manuel & Guillermo Owen & Mónica Pozo & Martha Saboyá, 2008. "The cohesiveness of subgroups in social networks: A view from game theory," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 158(1), pages 33-46, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:annopr:v:158:y:2008:i:1:p:33-46:10.1007/s10479-007-0247-4
    DOI: 10.1007/s10479-007-0247-4
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