The Application of Q-measure to Gender Study in Cooperation Network
Over the past few years, network theory has enjoyed more and more scientists attention. In this paper, Q-measures for binary divided networks, as introduced by Flom, Friedman, Strauss and Neaigus who are specialists in Social Network Analysis, are illustratively studied. These measures try to capture the idea of bridges between two groups in a connected undirected network. The idea of Q-measure is similar as the classic betweenness measure in Social Network Analysis. However the betweenness do not make a distinction between nodes belonging to different groups, or between geodesics remaining in the same group and geodesics crossing to the other group. There are many networks which can be divided into two groups by gender, organization, or countries, so the Q-measures are meaningful for studying the relationship between these two groups. The present study transfers the Q-measures into computer language, which expands its application domain. As an application, a global interdisciplinary collaboration network -COLLNET is analyzed. Q-values of each member in COLLNET are calculated and the reason for the results is explained. By this case, the difference between Q-measures and betweenness is very clearly.
Social network analysis Q-measure Bridge Binary Collaboration network.
PANG Jie YIN Lichun LIU Zeyuan LI Hui
21st Century R&D Center, WISE Laboratory Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, Liaoning, China WISE Laboratory, Department of electronic and information engineering Dalian University of Technolog DqQing Petroleum Equipment Group
国际会议
The Fifth InternationalSymposium on Management of Technology(ISMOT07)(第五届技术与创新管理国际研讨会)
杭州
英文
1722-1726
2007-06-01（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）