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The Right Expert at the Right Time and Place

From Expertise Identification to Expertise Selection

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Practical Aspects of Knowledge Management (PAKM 2008)

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We propose a unified and complete solution for expert finding in organizations, including not only expertise identification, but also expertise selection functionality. The latter two include the use of implicit and explicit preferences of users on meeting each other, as well as localization and planning as important auxiliary processes. We also propose a solution for privacy protection, which is urgently required in view of the huge amount of privacy sensitive data involved. Various parts are elaborated elsewhere, and we look forward to a realization and usage of the proposed system as a whole.

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  1. Database Group, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands

    Pavel Serdyukov, Sander Evers, Harold van Heerde, Peter Apers, Maarten Fokkinga & Djoerd Hiemstra

  2. Database group, Dept. of Computer Science and Tech, Tsinghua University, China

    Ling Feng

  3. Teezir, The Netherlands

    Arthur van Bunningen

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Serdyukov, P. et al. (2008). The Right Expert at the Right Time and Place . In: Yamaguchi, T. (eds) Practical Aspects of Knowledge Management. PAKM 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5345. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89447-6_6

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