A network approach to mixing delegates at meetings.
Delegates at scientific meetings can come from diverse backgrounds and use very different methods in their research. Promoting interactions between these 'distant' delegates is challenging but such interactions could lead to novel interdisciplinary collaborations and unexpected breakthroughs. We have developed a network-based 'speed dating' approach that allows us to initiate such distant interactions by pairing every delegate with another delegate who might be of interest to them, but whom they might never have encountered otherwise. Here we describe our approach and its algorithmic implementation.
Federico Vaggi is in the Department of Computational Biology, Fondazione Edmund Mach, San Michele all'Adige, Italy federico.vaggi@fmach.it.
Federico
F
Vaggi
Tommaso
T
Schiavinotto
Jonathan Ld
JL
Lawson
Anatole
A
Chessel
James
J
Dodgson
Marco
M
Geymonat
Masamitsu
M
Sato
Rafael Edgardo
RE
Carazo Salas
Attila
A
Csikász-Nagy
D003226:Congresses as Topic; D012586:Science; D000078329:Workforce
collaboration; cutting edge; graph theory; interdisciplinary research; meetings; social networks