Entropy based evaluation of net structures – deployed in Social Network Analysis

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Highlights：

• Sometimes graphs are an insufficient medium to represent social structures.

• If a relation between two actors is valid this is formulated as a conditional.

• The principle of Maximum-Entropy is as new instrument to analyze social fabric.

• MaxEnt makes such conditionals form the knowledge base about the network’s structure.

• This knowledge-base can be implemented in the expert system shell SPIRIT.

摘要

•Sometimes graphs are an insufficient medium to represent social structures.•If a relation between two actors is valid this is formulated as a conditional.•The principle of Maximum-Entropy is as new instrument to analyze social fabric.•MaxEnt makes such conditionals form the knowledge base about the network’s structure.•This knowledge-base can be implemented in the expert system shell SPIRIT.

论文关键词：Information theory,Entropy,Expert systems,Social networks,Network analysis,Centrality

论文评审过程：Available online 11 July 2014.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2014.06.049