Trust Networks and Competence Networks

Abstract

Expert finding for specific e-expertise is a multidisciplinary problem at the junction of strategic analysis, decision-making theory, synergy, inverse problem solution, human capital and emotional potential assessment, motivation control, quantum semantics, knowledge management, organizational analysis, information retrieval (acquisition, indexing, storage of artefacts and other evidence of expert knowledge), and analysis of social and organizational networks. It seems often difficult or even impossible to localize potential experts in an organization. The reasons consist in very many employees of an organization, its functionally and/or geographically dispersed character. What is more important, problem solving may require inviting experts from related or totally different subject domains.