Expert group formation using facility location analysis

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Highlights：

• Using facility location analysis as a well known branch of Operation Research to solve an applied problem in information retrieval.

• Proposing a unified framework to solve three types of problems for expert group formation.

• Testing our framework on a real test collection.

• Proof of optimality of the solution.

摘要

•Using facility location analysis as a well known branch of Operation Research to solve an applied problem in information retrieval.•Proposing a unified framework to solve three types of problems for expert group formation.•Testing our framework on a real test collection.•Proof of optimality of the solution.

论文关键词：Expert group formation,Expert finding,Topic model,Facility location analysis,Greedy approach,Linear programming

论文评审过程：Received 23 February 2013, Revised 30 September 2013, Accepted 8 October 2013, Available online 5 November 2013.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2013.10.001