Courier Assignment in Social Networks

Integration is important in politics, business, and technology. In all these fields, the definition of integration is vague. We build a formal measure of integration based on the latency of communication, and show how it can be used to optimize a courier assignment problem. Through simulation, we sh...

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Main Authors: Nickerson, J.V., Olariu, S.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
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Summary:Integration is important in politics, business, and technology. In all these fields, the definition of integration is vague. We build a formal measure of integration based on the latency of communication, and show how it can be used to optimize a courier assignment problem. Through simulation, we show how networks grow as couriers are added. Our measure captures the tradeoff between locality and expansion, as well as providing a model for triangle closure. Finally, we form conjectures about political integration which can be tested through empirical research
ISSN:2572-6862
DOI:10.1109/HICSS.2007.156