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US 8,943,131 B2Granted
Predictive collaboration management
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsNathan D. Fontenot, Jeffrey David George, Michael Thomas Strosaker
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for managing collaborations. Requests are received by a computer for collaboration on a topic. A set of experts is identified by the computer having expertise in the topic for the collaboration and having activity prior to the collaboration relating to the topic to predict a likelihood of participation by the respective expert in the collaboration. The set of experts are identified from searching a number of collections of information.
Claims20
A method in a computer system for managing collaborations, the method comprising:
- receiving, by the computer system, a request for collaboration on a topic;
- identifying, by the computer system for a collaboration, a plurality of experts that have expertise in the topic, wherein at least two of the plurality of experts have a different one of a plurality of different threshold levels of a likelihood of participation in the collaboration, wherein the likelihood of participation in the collaboration is the percentage based estimation that the expert will participate in the collaboration based on a relative location of the expert to a collaboration site and whether the expert belongs to an organization hosting the collaboration, and wherein the plurality of experts are identified using a number of collections of information;
- setting the plurality of different threshold levels according to a level of expertise of the plurality of experts;
- and
- identifying, by the computer system, particular experts of the plurality of experts that have a respective particular likelihood of participation that exceeds one of the plurality of different threshold levels.
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A computer system for managing collaborations, the computer system comprising:
- one or more processors, one or more computer-readable memories and one or more computer-readable storage devices, and program instructions, stored on at least one of the one or more storage devices for execution by at least one of the one or more processors via at least one of the one or more memories, the program instructions comprising:
- program instructions to receive a request for collaboration on a topic;
- program instructions to identify, for a collaboration, a plurality of experts that have expertise in the topic, wherein at least two of the plurality of experts have a different one of a plurality of different threshold levels of a likelihood of participation in the collaboration, wherein the likelihood of participation in the collaboration is the percentage based estimation that the expert will participate in the collaboration based on a relative location of the expert to a collaboration site and whether the expert belongs to an organization hosting the collaboration, and wherein the plurality of experts are identified using a number of collections of information;
- program instructions to set the plurality of different threshold levels according to a level of expertise of the plurality of experts;
- and
- program instructions to identify particular experts of the plurality of experts that have a respective particular likelihood of participation that exceeds one of the plurality of different threshold levels.
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A computer program product for managing collaborations, the computer program product comprising:
- one or more computer-readable tangible storage devices, and program instructions stored on the storage devices, the program instructions comprising:
- program instructions to receive a request for collaboration on a topic;
- program instructions to identify, for a collaboration, a plurality of experts that have expertise in the topic, wherein at least two of the plurality of experts have a different one of a plurality of different threshold levels of a likelihood of participation in the collaboration, wherein the likelihood of participation in the collaboration is the percentage based estimation that the expert will participate in the collaboration based on a relative location of the expert to a collaboration site and whether the expert belongs to an organization hosting the collaboration, and wherein the plurality of experts are identified using a number of collections of information;
- program instructions to set the plurality of different threshold levels according to a level of expertise of the plurality of experts;
- and
- program instructions to identify particular experts of the plurality of experts that have a respective particular likelihood of participation that exceeds one of the plurality of different threshold levels.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.