Assessment of groups in a network organization based on the Shapley group value Articles uri icon

authors

  • FLORES, RAMÓN
  • MOLINA FERRAGUT, ELISENDA
  • TEJADA, JUAN

publication date

  • March 2016

start page

  • 97

end page

  • 105

volume

  • 83

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 0167-9236

Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)

  • 1873-5797

abstract

  • The focus of this paper is the assessment of groups of agents or units in a network organization. Given a social network, the relations between agents are modeled by means of a graph, and its functionality will be codified by means of a cooperative game. Building on previous work of Gomez et al. (2003) for the individual case, we propose a Myerson group value to evaluate the ability of each group of agents inside the social network to achieve the organization's goals. We analyze this centrality measure, and in particular we offer several decompositions that facilitate obtaining a precise interpretation of it. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

keywords

  • centrality; shapley group value; myerson value; network organization; game-theoretic approach; social networks