Actor centrality correlates to project based coordination

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 363-372

  Hossain, Liaquat ^a   Wu, Andrè ^b   Chung, Kenneth K S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b IBM Australia   (Australia)

Author keywords

Actor centrality; Communication; Coordination; Email content analysis; Network structure; Social network

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; ELECTRONIC MAIL; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

ACTOR CENTRALITY; NETWORK CENTRALITY; NETWORK STRUCTURE; SOCIAL NETWORK;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK;

EID: 34547150619     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1180875.1180930     Document Type: Conference Paper

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