Title :
Estimating the Strength of Ties in Communication Networks with a Small Number of Users
Author :
Banford, Jamie ; McDiarmid, Alisdair ; Irvine, James
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Univ. of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
Abstract :
An accurate method of estimating the tie strengths of mobile phone users will enable the development of socially-aware mobile applications. The strength of ties between mobile phone users can be estimated for large numbers of users by using the aggregated call duration as a proxy for tie strength. This paper investigates appropriate proxies for tie strength in a network of less than one hundred people. We find that aggregated call duration is a reasonable proxy for tie strength for a small number of users, as is total call count, and that aggregated proximity duration and total proximity count are also approximate proxies for tie strength.
Keywords :
estimation theory; mobile handsets; communication networks; mobile phone users; socially aware; strength estimation; tie strengths; Context; Data mining; Mobile communication; Mobile computing; Mobile handsets; Social network services; Software; Mobile Applications; Social Computing; Tie Strength;
Conference_Titel :
Wireless and Mobile Communications (ICWMC), 2010 6th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Valencia
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8021-0
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-7695-4182-2
DOI :
10.1109/ICWMC.2010.40