ExpertRank: An expert user ranking algorithm in online communities

Proceedings - 2009 International Conference on New Trends in Information and Service Science, NISS 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 674-679

  Jiao, Jian ^a   Yan, Jun ^a   Zhao, Haibei ^a   Fan, Weiguo ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION; EXPERT USERS; ONLINE COMMUNITIES; PAGERANK; PAGERANK ALGORITHM; RANKING ALGORITHM; RESEARCH ISSUES; SHARE KNOWLEDGE; SMALL GROUPS; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS; SOCIAL NETWORKS; VECTOR SPACE MODELS; WEB 2.0; WEB USERS;

ONLINE SYSTEMS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 70449604836     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NISS.2009.75     Document Type: Conference Paper

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