Computer Supported Social Networking Based on Email Exchange

Abstract

The exploration of social networks is essential to find capable cooperators who can help problem-solving and to augment cooperation between workers in an organization. This chapter describes PeCo-Mediator-II to seek for capable cooperators with the chain of personal connections (PeCo) in a networked organization. Moreover, this system helps gathering, exploring and visualizing social networks in an organization. The experimental results show that the system facilitates users encounter cooperators and develop a new helpful relationship with the cooperators.