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A network approach to mixing delegates at meetings

Authors :
Federico Vaggi
Tommaso Schiavinotto
Jonathan LD Lawson
Anatole Chessel
James Dodgson
Marco Geymonat
Masamitsu Sato
Rafael Edgardo Carazo Salas
Attila Csikász-Nagy
Source :
eLife, Vol 3 (2014)
Publication Year :
2014
Publisher :
eLife Sciences Publications Ltd, 2014.

Abstract

Delegates at scientific meetings can come from diverse backgrounds and use very different methods in their research. Promoting interactions between these ‘distant’ delegates is challenging but such interactions could lead to novel interdisciplinary collaborations and unexpected breakthroughs. We have developed a network-based ‘speed dating’ approach that allows us to initiate such distant interactions by pairing every delegate with another delegate who might be of interest to them, but whom they might never have encountered otherwise. Here we describe our approach and its algorithmic implementation.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
2050084X
Volume :
3
Database :
Directory of Open Access Journals
Journal :
eLife
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsdoj.91e3b20a1e7e4cf6bb98b646c145ff7b
Document Type :
article
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.02273