%0 Journal Article %1 Tyler:2003p592 %A Tyler, Joshua R %A Wilkinson, Dennis M %A Huberman, Bernardo A %D 2003 %J Communities and Technologies: Proceedings of the First łdots %K imported %T Email as Spectroscopy: Automated Discovery of Community Structure within Organizations %U http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&id=u5v9f4KKHxsC&oi=fnd&pg=PA81&dq=Nt3RLUy1AXsJ:scholar.google.com/&ots=InU64p7A6A&sig=zXZ-zdemIYAvb_beYADPl-deOAo %X We describe a method for the automatic identification of communities of practice from email logs within an organization. We use a betweenness centrality algorithm that can rapidly find communities within a graph representing information flows. We apply this algorithm to an email corpus of nearly one million messages collected over a two-month span, and show that the method is effective at identifying true communities, both formal and informal, within these scale-free graphs. This approach also enables the identification of leadership roles within the communities. These studies are complemented by a qualitative evaluation of the results in the field.

@article{Tyler:2003p592, abstract = {We describe a method for the automatic identification of communities of practice from email logs within an organization. We use a betweenness centrality algorithm that can rapidly find communities within a graph representing information flows. We apply this algorithm to an email corpus of nearly one million messages collected over a two-month span, and show that the method is effective at identifying true communities, both formal and informal, within these scale-free graphs. This approach also enables the identification of leadership roles within the communities. These studies are complemented by a qualitative evaluation of the results in the field. }, added-at = {2008-03-13T16:33:57.000+0100}, author = {Tyler, Joshua R and Wilkinson, Dennis M and Huberman, Bernardo A}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/20e818ade6ffc29c71577277104f99372/bertil.hatt}, date-added = {2007-06-25 04:33:52 +0200}, date-modified = {2008-03-13 14:45:05 +0100}, description = {March 2008}, interhash = {c712e59ff99f12c42a5d3c3b0bf4c48f}, intrahash = {0e818ade6ffc29c71577277104f99372}, journal = {Communities and Technologies: Proceedings of the First {\ldots}}, keywords = {imported}, local-url = {file://localhost/Users/bertilhatt/Documents/Papers/Tyler/2003/Tyler%202003%20Communities%20and%20Technologies%20Proceedings%20of%20the%20First%20%E2%80%A6.pdf}, month = Jan, pmid = {8863564880432717110related:Nt3RLUy1AXsJ}, rating = {3}, read = {Yes}, timestamp = {2008-03-13T16:34:24.000+0100}, title = {Email as Spectroscopy: Automated Discovery of Community Structure within Organizations}, uri = {papers://C3B117CD-23C4-4854-9426-AC96AFB113DA/Paper/p592}, url = {http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&id=u5v9f4KKHxsC&oi=fnd&pg=PA81&dq=Nt3RLUy1AXsJ:scholar.google.com/&ots=InU64p7A6A&sig=zXZ-zdemIYAvb_beYADPl-deOAo}, year = 2003 }