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词条 Authority distribution
释义

  1. Definition

  2. Applications

  3. See also

  4. References

  5. External links

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The solution concept authority distribution was formulated by Lloyd Shapley and his student X. Hu in 2003 to measure the authority power of players in a well-contracted organization.[1] The index generates the Shapley-Shubik power index and can be used in ranking, planning and organizational choice.

Definition

The organization contracts each individual by boss and approval relation with others. So each individual has its own authority structure, called command game. The Shapley-Shubik power index for these command games are

collectively denoted by a power transit matrix Ρ.

The authority distribution π is defined as the solution to the counterbalance equation π=πΡ. The basic idea for the counterbalance equation is that a person's power comes from his critical roles in others' command game; on the other hand, his power could also be redistributed to those who sit in his command game as vital players.

For a simple legislative body, π is simply the Shapley-Shubik power index, based on a probabilistic argument (,[2][3]).

Applications

Example 1. College ranking by applicants’ acceptance

Suppose that there are large numbers of college applicants to apply the colleges

Each applicant files multiple applications. Each college then offers some

of its applicants admissions and rejects all others. Now some applicants may get no offer

from any college; the other then get one offer or multiple offers. An applicant with multiple

offers will decide which college to go to and reject all other colleges which make offers

to him. Of all applicants who apply to and receive offers from College i, we let P(i,j) be

the proportion of those applicants who decide to go to college j. Such applicants of

course apply to and receive offers from College j as well.

To rank the colleges by the acceptance rates of the applicants to whom offers were

made, we can apply the authority distribution associated with the matrix P. The so-called “authority distribution” can be regarded as the measure of relative

attractiveness of the colleges from the applicants’ point of view.

Example 2. Journal rankings by citations

Assume there are n journals in a scientific field. For any Journal i, each issue

contains many papers, and each paper has its list of references or citations. A paper in journal j

can be cited in another paper in Journal i as a reference. Of all papers cited by Journal i (repetition

counted), we let P(i,j) be the proportion of those papers which are published on Journal j. So P

measures the direct impact between any two journals and P(i, i) is the self-citation rate

for Journal i . The authority distribution for π = πP would quantify the long-term influence of

each journal in the group of journals and can be used to rank these journals.

Example 3. Planning of a freeway system

A few small towns believe that building a freeway system would be to their common

benefit. Say, they plan to build freeways F1,F2, . . . ,Fn−1. We let Fn be the existing traffic

channels of car, truck and bus. We assume that all the potential freeways have the same

length. Otherwise we can make up the assumption by dividing long freeways into smaller

segments and rename them all. The freeways with higher traffic intensity should be built

with more driving lanes and so receive more investments. Of all the traffic flow on Fi, we

let P(i,j) be the (estimated) proportion of the traffic flowing into Fj . Then the authority

distribution π satisfying π = πP will measure the relative traffic intensity on each Fi and

can be used in the investment allocation.

A similar issue can be found in designing an Internet or Intranet system.

Example 4. Real Effective Exchange Rates Weights

Assume there are n countries. Let P(i,j) be country j's weights of consumption of country's total production.

The associated π measures the weights in the trading system of n countries.

See also

  • Shapley value
  • Shapley-Shubik power index
  • Banzhaf power index

References

1. ^{{cite journal |last=Hu |first=Xingwei |first2=Lloyd |last2=Shapley |title=On Authority Distributions in Organizations |journal=Games and Economic Behavior |volume=45 |pages=132–170 |year=2003 | doi = 10.1016/s0899-8256(03)00130-1 }}
2. ^{{cite journal |last=Hu |first=Xingwei |title=An Asymmetric Shapley–Shubik Power Index |journal=International Journal of Game Theory |volume=34 |issue=2 |pages=229–240 |year=2006 |doi=10.1007/s00182-006-0011-z }}
3. ^{{cite journal |last=Shapley |first=L. S. |first2=M. |last2=Shubik |title=A Method for Evaluating the Distribution of Power in a Committee System |journal=American Political Science Review |volume=48 |issue=3 |pages=787–792 |year=1954 |doi=10.2307/1951053 }}

External links

  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20151121073351/http://hpcgi2.nifty.com/TOMOMI/index-e.cgi Online Power Index Calculator] (by Tomomi Matsui)
  • Computer Algorithms for Voting Power Analysis Web-based algorithms for voting power analysis
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20110719105103/http://korsika.informatik.uni-kiel.de/~stb/power_indices/index.php Power Index Calculator] Computes various indices for (multiple) weighted voting games online. Includes some examples.
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