NDLI: Opportunistic Information Flows through Strategic Social Link Establishment

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Skopik, F. Schall, D. Dustdar, S.
Copyright Year	2011
Abstract	Social networks have emerged from niche existence to a mass phenomenon. Nowadays, their fundamental concepts, such as managing personal contacts and sharing profile information, are increasingly harnessed for businesses in professional environments. Similar to service-oriented networks, they allow flexible discovery on demand and loose coupling of participants. Establishing social links facilitates cooperation and enables selective sharing of information. Intuitively, one shares more information with his connected neighbors and less or even none with unrelated individuals. Today, information is one of the most important and valuable goods in business networks. Being informed about ongoing collaborations and upcoming trends is a key success factor. Thus, in professional networks, participants aim at strategically establishing connections to enable reliable information flows. In this paper, we especially highlight an opportunistic model that let mediators connect actually unrelated actors in order to benefit from information mediation. We further discuss a framework that implements this model for service-oriented professional virtual communities.
Starting Page	308
Ending Page	315
File Size	387362
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781457713736
DOI	10.1109/WI-IAT.2011.18
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2011-08-22
Publisher Place	France
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Context Measurement structural holes Social network services Communities Collaboration social networks strategic link establishment Reliability information mediation Mediation reciprocity
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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