A novel method for expert finding in online communities based on concept map and PageRank

Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Rafiei, Majid ^a   Kardan, Ahmad A ^a  

^a AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Concept map; Dijkstra s algorithm; Expert finding; Knowledge sharing; Online community; PageRank algorithm

Indexed keywords

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

CONCEPT MAPS; EXPERT FINDING; KNOWLEDGE-SHARING; ON-LINE COMMUNITIES; PAGERANK ALGORITHM; S-ALGORITHMS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84928252525     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21921962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13673-015-0030-5     Document Type: Article

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