A network approach to mixing delegates at meetings.
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- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 24497549.
- Also identified by DOI 10.7554/eLife.02273 and PMC identifier 3912938.
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Abstract
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.
Medical subject headings
- Congresses as Topic
- Science