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Personal Sharing in Small Groups Among
Computational Mathematics and Fisheries Students
Nur Fatin Atiera Binti Maliki
Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Roslan Bin Hasni @ Abdullah
Bachelor of Science (Computational Mathematics)
School of Informatics and Applied Mathematics
Graph theory is a study of graphs, which are mathematical structures used to model
pairwise relations between objects. In this research, we focused on the concept of
reciprocity in the social network. The concept taken for the study is personal sharing in
small groups among third year undergraduate programme of Computational Mathematics
and Fisheries in Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT). Reciprocity is a social norm of
responding to a positive action with another positive action and it creates various social
bonds. Social network refers to the articulation of a social relationship among individuals
and groups. The data collected is represented as a directed graph where an arc from one
vertex to another vertex represents the existence of the personal sharing. An analysis of
the directed graph is carried out and the pattern of the personal sharing are identified.
Thus, the pattern reveals a substantial difference of behaviour among the students from
the two different courses.
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