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Here is an interesting result, from HP group :

Tyler, J. R., Wilkinson, D. M., Huberman, B. A. (2003).  Email as  
Spectroscopy: Automated Discovery of Community Structure within  
Organizations.  Communities and Technologies, pp. 81-96.

Abstract: We describe a methodology for the automatic identification  
of communities of practice from email logs within an organization. We  
use a betweeness centrality algorithm that can rapidly find  
communities within a graph representing information flows. We apply  
this algorithm to an email corpus of nearly one million messages  
collected over a two-month span, and show that the method is  
effective at identifying true communities, both formal and informal,  
within these scale-free graphs. This approach also enables the  
identification of leadership roles within the communities. These  
studies are complemented by a qualitative evaluation of the results  
in the field.
http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/idl/papers/email/email.pdf

Emilie

Le 16 nov. 05 à 19:43, Chris Diehl a écrit :

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> Dear SOCNETers,
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> I am interested in the problem of inferring the management  
> hierarchy of an
> organization from observed email exchanges. Within the social network
> analysis domain, I'm curious what relevant research I should  
> review. Any
> pointers would be greatly appreciated.
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> Cheers,
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> Chris
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> Chris Diehl, Ph.D.
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