Expert recommendation based on social drivers, social network analysis, and semantic data representation
Maryam Fazel-Zarandi, Hugh J. Devlin, Yun Ming Huang, Noshir Contractor · 2011
Knowledge networks and recommender systems are especially important for expert finding within organizations and scientific communities. Useful recommendation of experts, however, is not an easy task for many reasons: It requires reasoning about multiple complex networks from heterogeneous sources (such as collaboration networks of individuals, article citation networks, and concept networks) and depends significantly on the needs of individuals in seeking recommendations.