Dynamic Collaborator Discovery in Information Intensive Environments David Payton, Mike Daily, and Kevin Martin HRL Laboratories, LLC As organizations continue to grow more complex, people have increasing difficulty remaining aware of others whose work could impact their own. Despite the rapid proliferation of our communication networks, we often hear the complaint the right hand doesn t know what the left hand is doing. This is a particularly important issue within large organizations and could be reduced if people could more easily discover potential collaborators. As organizations continuously re-organize, it is often the case that one person comes to be working on a problem that someone else has already solved. Likewise, a particular customer need might be more readily satisfied with the efficient identification of the appropriate individuals to assemble into a team. Coordination between people with common interests is a particularly important issue within the military intelligence community. While focusing on a specific region or political arena, for example, the significance of a certain subtle detail may not be apparent to an analyst until it can be placed in a big picture view that spans multiple regional and political arenas. The analyst who can find the
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