Network Design for Social Welfare

Impact of Social Network Structure on Social Welfare and Inequality

In this chapter, how the structure of a network can affect the social welfare and inequality (measured by the Gini coefficient) are investigated based on a graphical game model which is referred to as the Networked Resource Game (NRG). For the network structure, the Erdos-Renyi model, the preferential attachment model, and several other network structure models are implemented and compared to s...

Social Welfare

generally. j j Social Welfare, like Social Medicine, will fix its own standards, have its own objectives and develop its own techniques *n achieving the objectives. It cannot follow the Western standards, objectives and techniques. Asia in general and India in particular have an outlook different from the outlook of European cultures. It is different but not inferior by any means. The general i...

Social Welfare in Algorithmic Mechanism Design Without Money

Social choice theory is concerned with collective decision making under different, possibly contrasting opinions and has been part of the core of society since ancient times. The goal is to implement some socially desired objective while at the same time accounting for the fact that people will act strategically, in order to manipulate the outcomes in their favor. In this thesis, we consider th...

Using social network analysis of human aspects for online social network software: a design methodology

Introduction Online social networks, also known as Social Network Sites (SNS) are web-based services allowing users to communicate with each other whether for personal or professional usage. Boyd and Ellison have defined SNS in their paper as “Web Based Services that allow individuals to (1) construct a public or semi-public profile within a bounded system (2) to articulate a list of other user...

Quadratic Social Welfare Functions