%0 Generic %1 citeulike:341231 %A Tyler, Joshua R. %A Wilkinson, Dennis M. %A Huberman, Bernardo A. %D 2003 %K findingcommunities socialnets community %T Email as Spectroscopy: Automated Discovery of Community Structure within Organizations %U http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0303264 %X We describe a methodology for the automatic identification of communities of practice from email logs within an organization. We use a betweeness 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.

@misc{citeulike:341231, abstract = {We describe a methodology for the automatic identification of communities of practice from email logs within an organization. We use a betweeness 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 = {2006-06-16T10:34:37.000+0200}, author = {Tyler, Joshua R. and Wilkinson, Dennis M. and Huberman, Bernardo A.}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/26349c1459e01fa183c1423c36c33b191/ldietz}, citeulike-article-id = {341231}, eprint = {cond-mat/0303264}, interhash = {c712e59ff99f12c42a5d3c3b0bf4c48f}, intrahash = {6349c1459e01fa183c1423c36c33b191}, keywords = {findingcommunities socialnets community}, month = Mar, priority = {4}, timestamp = {2006-06-16T10:34:37.000+0200}, title = {Email as Spectroscopy: Automated Discovery of Community Structure within Organizations}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0303264}, year = 2003 }