Segregation Discovery in a Social Network of Companies

• Published in: Advances in Intelligent Data Analysis XIV Vol. 9385; pp. 37 - 48
• Main Authors: Baroni, Alessandro, Ruggieri, Salvatore
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland Springer International Publishing AG 01.01.2015; Springer International Publishing
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• Subjects: Artificial intelligence; Dissimilarity Index; Giant Component; Image processing; Information Index; Italian Company; Minority Group; Pattern recognition

We introduce a framework for a data-driven analysis of segregation of minority groups in social networks, and challenge it on a complex scenario. The framework builds on quantitative measures of segregation, called segregation indexes, proposed in the social science literature. The segregation disco...