SELaKT - Social network analysis as a method for Expert Localisation and Sustainable Knowledge Transfer

Journal of Universal Computer Science

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 691-701

  Mueller Prothmann, Tobias ^a   Finke, Ina ^b  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR PRODUCTION SYSTEMS AND DESIGN TECHNOLOGY IPK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Applied research; Collaboration; Communities of practice; Distributed knowledge management; Expert localisation; Implementation; Knowledge networks; Knowledge sharing; Social network analysis; Strategies; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

EID: 23844486710     PISSN: 0958695X     EISSN: 09486968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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