creators_name: Situngkir, Hokky
type: techreport
datestamp: 2007-07-28
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:56:55
metadata_visibility: show
title: Small World Network of Athletes: Graph Representation of the World Professional Tennis Player

ispublished: pub
subjects: comp-sci-stat-model
subjects: comp-sci-mach-dynam-sys
subjects: comp-sci-complex-theory
subjects: socsim
subjects: soc-psy
full_text_status: public
keywords: small-world network, sports and tournaments, historical relative performance index of athletes.
abstract: The paper proposes an alternative way to observe and extract the multiple matches games of sports, i.e.: tennis tournament in the Athlete’s Historical Relative Performance Index and its representation as graph. The finding of the small world topology is elaborated along with further statistical patterns in the fashion of the weighted and directed network. The explanation of the sport tournament system as a highly optimized system is hypothetically proposed. Finally, some elaborations regarding to further directions of the usability of the proposed methodology is discussed.
date: 2007-07
date_type: published
institution: Bandung Fe Institute
department: Dept. Computational Sociology
refereed: TRUE
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citation:   Situngkir, Hokky  (2007) Small World Network of Athletes: Graph Representation of the World Professional Tennis Player.  [Departmental Technical Report]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/5621/1/2007o.pdf