PROCEEDINGS IPMU '08
Using Imperfect Information in Online Social Systems: Applications and Measures of Betweenness
Miguel-Angel Sicilia, Elena García-Barriocanal, Nikolaos Korfiatis
Online social software systems enable
individuals to build representations
of their network of social ties,
and such information can be used
for the analysis of network structure
and the position of individuals in the
network. However, social ties representing
relationships as “friendship”
have intensity or strength as an intrinsic,
essential feature, and this
needs to be taken into account in
network models. This paper reports
on fuzzy techniques that deal
with imprecise information on the
strength of social ties, and provides
an extended model of brokerage that
accounts for such imprecise information.
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