COMMUNITY FORMING SYSTEM, COMMUNITY FORMING DEVICE THEREOF, DATA PROCESSING METHOD THEREOF, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a community forming system for forming a community to include users who have not had contact with each other as members.;SOLUTION: The community forming system is configured to store user information 310 that expresses at least a group and various profile information as a group consisting of a pair of an attribute name and an attribute value for each of a plurality of users who use a communication service, as well as a message log 320 including sender and receiver information of a message between users. In this state, the group of a plurality of users who frequently communicate is clustered based on the message log 320, and the candidate of a pair of clusters to be the base for formation of a new cluster is selected from the plurality of clusters. Common topic attribute to characterize the community is detected from the user information 310 of the selected pair of clusters. The community is formed by selectively merging the pair of the object clusters based on the detected topic attributes.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT