Visolink: a user-centric social relationship mining

  • Authors:
  • Lisa Fan;Botang Li

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada;Department of Computer Science, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada

  • Venue:
  • RSKT'08 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Rough sets and knowledge technology
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

With the popularity of Web 2.0 websites, online social networking has thriven rapidly over the last few years. Lots of research attention have been attracted to the large-scale social network extraction and analysis. However, these studies are mostly beneficial to sociologists and researchers in the area of social community studies, but rarely useful to individual users. In this paper, we present a "friends ranking" system - visoLink which is a personal social network analysis service based on user's reading and writing interest. In order to provide a better understanding to user's personal network, a weighted personal social representation and visualization are proposed. Our system prototype shows a much more user friendly design on personal networks than the classical node-edge distance based network visualization.