Finding the academic collaboration chance in open research community

Abstract

Due to the advance of information technology and the widely used social network on internet, research is being done in an open environment. While the researchers may share the published research achievements in paper format, it's essential for the research groups to find the potential academic collaboration chance between them and the large scale academic social network. This article is to present our solution to find the chance of academic collaboration between different research groups in such an open research community. A prototype has been made and the core algorithms and an experiment with main interfaces are introduced. © 2012 Springer Science+Business Media B.V.