The concept of translation and other analytical features of Actor-Network Theory (ANT) can offer a way of conceptualising these difficulties and their practical effects.
However, new issues are arising, since networks assume that relationships between spaces or actors are more significant than the features of actors or spaces themselves.
Of particular interest is a greater understanding of what features of actors may facilitate entrepreneurial involvement.
We have considered characteristic features of actors and four groups of actors of agriculture and museum social network as shown in Fig. 7 to simulate the GAMPSON.
Design of a GAMPSON was presented in "Generic actor model for a professional social network" along with distinct characteristic features of actors such as personal information, activity, etc.
A relation (R_{ij}) can be defined as an expression involving one or more characteristic features of actors (a_i) and (a_j).
At last, the GAMPSON was designed for the professional social networks such as ASN and MSN, where the acquisition of the characteristic features of actors related to the agriculture and museum were carried out.
Table 4 Actors along with their common characteristic features, weights, and relations used in the ASN Actors Common characteristic features Weight of actors Relation among actors 1.
The essential feature of actor-centered institutionalism is that it allows for the combination agency and structure within a uniform explanatory framework.
We propose a generic actor model for a professional social network (GAMPSON) which represents many characteristic features of an actor like personally identifiable information, professional information, activity, etc., and relations among the actors are built based on these characteristic features.
Because mental states are not directly observable, they can only be inferred from observable features of the actor (such as behavior) and the situational context that the actor is in.
