Title: ProLink: a semantics-based social network for software projects

Authors: Juan Miguel Gomez-Berbis, Ricardo Colomo-Palacios, Angel Garcia-Crespo, Belen Ruiz-Mezcua

Addresses: Department of Computer Science, Carlos III University, Av Universidad 30, Leganes, Madrid, Spain. ' Department of Computer Science, Carlos III University, Av Universidad 30, Leganes, Madrid, Spain. ' Department of Computer Science, Carlos III University, Av Universidad 30, Leganes, Madrid, Spain. ' Department of Computer Science, Carlos III University, Av Universidad 30, Leganes, Madrid, Spain

Abstract: One of the core challenges in the IT world is to harness the possibilities of reusing knowledge, expertise and lessons learned from previous software projects. In this paper, we present ProLink, a semantic-based social network, a proof-of-concept architecture and implementation of how this approach could foster expertise sharing and its potentially tremendous impact on work organisation and software development.

Keywords: social networks; semantics; competency; software projects; staffing semantic web; project staffing; knowledge reuse; knowledge sharing; expertise sharing.

DOI: 10.1504/IJITM.2008.018656

International Journal of Information Technology and Management, 2008 Vol.7 No.4, pp.392 - 404

Published online: 04 Jun 2008 *

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