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O estudo da organização do comportamento através da teoria dos grafos

1991; UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE SANTA CATARINA; Volume: 4; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

2175-7925

Takechi Sato,

Social Representations and Identity

Shortest-distance ditree, a tree-search procedure of graph theory, can be employed as a method of representing the organization of behavioural sequences. The tree-like diagram clearly shows association and embeddedness relationships between behaviour events, a feature not easily found in the behavioural transition sociograms largely employed in ethological studies. Shortest-distance ditree can be analysed by the graph-theoretical concept of maximal connected subgraphs. The number of such subgraphs is related to the degree of organization of behavior. The author proposes an information-theory index, normalized and ranging from zero to one, to measure the degree of organization. The method is exemplified by the analysis of sequences of grooming behaviour of Musca domestica.