Distance ratio: an exploratory application to compare complex networks

• Author(s): Caseiro, N. ; Trigo, P.
• Date: 2012
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.11/1698
• Origin: Repositório Científico do Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco
• Subject(s): Complex networks; network comparison; distance ratio; emergency management; mental models
• Document Type: Article
• Language: English

Description

Books of Abastracts disponível em http://eccs2012.ulb.ac.be/media/eccs_handbook_web.pdf This paper describes an experimental application of the distance ratio measure used to compare individual networks among themselves and to analyze the aggregated network representing the group mental model from the field of emergency management. The data was obtained by surveying a group of Civil Protection graduates and aggregating all the answers (shared mental model). The data allowed us to deepen the analysis of the resulting network in order to research for differences among networks.