An expert finding is a very common task among enterprise search activities, while its usual retrieval performance is far from the quality of the Web search. Query modeling helps t...
We develop a novel user-centric modeling technology, which can dynamically describe and update a person's expertise profile. In an enterprise environment, the technology can e...
Xiaodan Song, Belle L. Tseng, Ching-Yung Lin, Ming...
In an expert search task, the users' need is to identify people who have relevant expertise to a topic of interest. An expert search system predicts and ranks the expertise o...
We consider a monopolist expert offering a service with a `credence' characteristic. A credence service is one where the customer cannot verify, even after a purchase, whethe...
Laurens G. Debo, L. Beril Toktay, Luk N. Van Wasse...
— We examine the social behaviors of game experts in Everquest II, a popular massive multiplayer online role-playing game (MMO). We rely on Exponential Random Graph Models (ERGM)...
David Huffaker, Jing (Annie) Wang, Jeffrey William...