Affinity Set and Its Applications

1. Affinity Set and Its Applications Moussa Larbani and Yuh-Wen Chen

2. Outline • Research Background • Definitions • Potential Applications

3. Research Background • Inspiration from the ancient social system and human behavior • Affinity: a luck to bring people together • Simple idea: classification of objects based on the dynamic relationship between them • Description of the dynamic relationship between two objects: affinity

4. Some Observations of Affinity • Political Party • Business Contract • Marriage • Traffic Accident

5. Definitions

6. Indirect Affinity • As mentioned earlier, a close relationship between people or things that have similar qualities, structures, properties or features etc. we call this type off affinity indirect affinity. • Direct Affinity • Direct affinity is natural liking for or attraction to a person or a thing or an idea, etc. In direct affinity two elements are involved: the subjects of affinity and the affinity that takes place between them.

21. Potential Application 1 • Prediction

22. Prediction

23. Financial State Forecasting

24. More Definitions

27. Potential Application 2 • Data Mining

28. Data Mining

30. Direct Affinity

31. Potential Application 3 • Network Control

32. Network Control B 0.1 0.6 A C 0.5 0.3 0.2 0.4 0.1 0.2 D E 0.3