Journal article
Blueprints for success: Guidelines for building multidisciplinary collaboration teams
13 Jun 2013
Abstract
Finding collaborators to engage in academic research is a challenging task, especially when the collaboration is multidisciplinary in nature and collaborators are needed from different disciplines. This paper uses evidence of successful multidisciplinary collaborations, funded proposals, in a novel way: as an input for a method of recommendation of multidisciplinary collaboration teams. We attempt to answer two questions posed by a collaboration seeker: what disciplines provide collaboration opportunities and what combinations of characteristics of collaborators have been successful in the past? We describe a two-step recommendation framework where the first step recommends potential disciplines with collaboration potential based on current trends in funding. The second step recommends characteristics for a collaboration team that are consistent with past instances of successful collaborations. We examine how this information source can be used in a case-based recommender system and present a preliminary validation of the system using statistical methods.
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- Title
- Blueprints for success
- Creators
- Sidath Deepal Gunawardena (Author) - Drexel UniversityRosina O. Weber (Author) - Drexel University
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- College of Information Science and Technology (1995-2013); Information Science (Informatics)
- Identifiers
- 991014632449104721