Intelligent Social Network Modeling

The recent development of Web 2.0 has provided an enormous increase in human interactions across all corners of the earth. One manifestation of this is the growth of computer mediated social networks. Many notable Web 2.0 applications such as Facebook, Myspace and LinkedIn are social networks. Relational networks are becoming an important technology for modeling these types of social networks and the type of collaborative intelligence that arises from these interactions. Our goal here is to enrich the domain of social network modeling by introducing ideas from fuzzy sets and related granular computing technologies to provide a bridge between a human network analyst´s linguistic description of social network concepts and the formal model of the network.