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Locating expertise sources in a community of interest or practice is a critical need for distributed organizations. Usually expertise location is done through the use of personal social or knowledge networks and involves aspects such as trust and reputation. However, and especially in distributed organizations relying on communication technologies for cooperation, each member of a community is just aware of its own personal social or knowledge network. This makes difficult to get to know other potential experts in the community which may pertain to other members’ networks. NetExpert is an agent-based expertise location system that replicates the process of social and knowledge network building at community or organization level. In so doing it is able to connect several networks and put into contact expertise that otherwise would remain hidden.
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Sangüesa, R., Pujol, J.M. (2002). NetExpert: Agent-Based Expertise Location by Means of Social and Knowledge Networks. In: Dieng-Kuntz, R., Matta, N. (eds) Knowledge Management and Organizational Memories. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0947-9_14
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