Formation and Computation of Relationship in Complex Social Networks

Abstract

Social networks provide customs with a platform for interaction and information sharing. In real social activities, whether individuals or businesses, have to rely on some relations to live, work or engage in commercial activities. The formation of relationship between different actor clusters based on the same actor in real social networks is described in the paper. The relationships and their types as well as relationship attributes in real complex social networks are analyzed in details. An index calledQinshuduto represent the degree of closeness between two actors in real complex social networks is proposed and its computation model based on relationship types and attributes etc. are given. Case study shows thatQinshuduis a very reasonable and effective way for the use of complex social networks.