Researchers develop tools to access 'scholarly big data'
Tuesday, January 28, 2014 - 06:00
in Mathematics & Economics
Academic researchers and corporate managers often seek experts or collaborators in a particular field to enhance their knowledge or maximize the talents of their workforce. Harnessing that data, however, can be a challenge. Researchers at Penn State's College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) and the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) have devised recommendation systems for expert and collaborator discovery that enable users to access "scholarly big data."