AHP-based Metric for Tie Strength of Online Friendships

Juliana de Melo Bezerra, Gabriel Marques, Celso Massaki Hirata

2015

Abstract

Not all friends have the same importance to an individual, and even the importance of a friend can vary over time. In order to keep friends close, online relational maintenance strategies can be employed. The knowledge about the tie strength of an online relation can be useful to social, technical or commercial purposes. In this paper, we define a metric for tie strength in online friendships. We investigate variables related to friendship maintenance as well as their relative importance. Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is a decision method used to find the relevance of the selected variables. We conduct experiments that show a high acceptance of the metric based on assessments of real users.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

de Melo Bezerra J., Marques G. and Massaki Hirata C. (2015). AHP-based Metric for Tie Strength of Online Friendships . In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST, ISBN 978-989-758-106-9, pages 311-320. DOI: 10.5220/0005405003110320

in Bibtex Style

@conference{webist15,
author={Juliana de Melo Bezerra and Gabriel Marques and Celso Massaki Hirata},
title={AHP-based Metric for Tie Strength of Online Friendships},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,},
year={2015},
pages={311-320},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005405003110320},
isbn={978-989-758-106-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,
TI - AHP-based Metric for Tie Strength of Online Friendships
SN - 978-989-758-106-9
AU - de Melo Bezerra J.
AU - Marques G.
AU - Massaki Hirata C.
PY - 2015
SP - 311
EP - 320
DO - 10.5220/0005405003110320