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Main Authors: Ende, Rosa van den, Mermoud, Dylan Laplace
Format: Preprint
Published: 2023
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.02728
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author Ende, Rosa van den
Mermoud, Dylan Laplace
author_facet Ende, Rosa van den
Mermoud, Dylan Laplace
contents Responsibility in complex networks extends beyond direct actions: players should also bear responsibility for the indirect effects within their supply chains or network. We introduce a novel framework to allocate responsibility for indirect environmental, social, and economic impacts across a dynamic network. Unlike static approaches, our framework accounts for the evolving structure of supply chains, financial systems, and other interconnected systems, where relationships change over time. We use the time-dependent Laplacian matrix to capture how responsibility propagates through the network, revealing a diffusion process that aligns with key axioms of fairness: linearity, efficiency, symmetry, and the independent player property. We show that approximating the responsibility measure preserves these properties, supporting the use of our framework as a rigorous method to allocate responsibility in real-world networks.
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spellingShingle Diffusion in dynamic networks with time-varying inputs to allocate responsibility
Ende, Rosa van den
Mermoud, Dylan Laplace
Theoretical Economics
91B32, 05C20
Responsibility in complex networks extends beyond direct actions: players should also bear responsibility for the indirect effects within their supply chains or network. We introduce a novel framework to allocate responsibility for indirect environmental, social, and economic impacts across a dynamic network. Unlike static approaches, our framework accounts for the evolving structure of supply chains, financial systems, and other interconnected systems, where relationships change over time. We use the time-dependent Laplacian matrix to capture how responsibility propagates through the network, revealing a diffusion process that aligns with key axioms of fairness: linearity, efficiency, symmetry, and the independent player property. We show that approximating the responsibility measure preserves these properties, supporting the use of our framework as a rigorous method to allocate responsibility in real-world networks.
title Diffusion in dynamic networks with time-varying inputs to allocate responsibility
topic Theoretical Economics
91B32, 05C20
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.02728