Towards a Theory for a Sociable Software Architecture

The complex relationship of networks of information that exist on the web and in modem computer systems requires advanced link-analysis capabilities in order to make sense of the deluge of data. Applications are emerging which use "intelligent agents" to gather data, however, they are rarely more than specially tuned search engines with the goal of gathering individual’s purchasing and chat proclivities. We propose a link-analysis architecture focused on the individual with attention on the individual’s "discourse communities." We believe this focus, along with the development and refmement of a discourse community thesaurus can uniquely begin to model the social and cultural component’s of a user’s profile. This profile can help to begin to create more truly intelligent agents performing richer link analysis.