Organizational Chart Inference

Authors: Jiawei Zhang, Philip S. Yu, Yuanhua Lv

10 pages, 9 figures, 1 table. The paper is accepted by KDD 2015

Results of the summarizing process for the arXiv paper: 1507.06841v1

  • Comprehensive Summary
  • Key points
  • Layman's Summary
  • Blog article
The emergence of enterprise social networks (ESNs) has revolutionized communication and collaboration in many companies. ESNs provide employees with professional services to help them tackle daily work issues, but the hierarchical organization of employees according to their ranks can make it challenging to manage operations smoothly. To address this issue, companies use organizational charts that outline the internal management structure visually. However, these charts are usually confidential due to privacy and security concerns. In this paper titled "Organizational Chart Inference," Jiawei Zhang, Philip S. Yu, and Yuanhua Lv propose a novel unsupervised method called Create (ChArT REcovEr) to solve the inference of organizational chart (IOC) problem based on heterogeneous online ESNs launched within a company. The IOC problem is challenging because internal organizational charts need to meet specific structural requirements regarding depth and width for smooth operations. Create consists of three steps: social stratification of ESN users into different social classes, supervision link inference from managers to subordinates, and consecutive social classes matching to prune redundant supervision links. Extensive experiments conducted on real-world online ESN datasets demonstrate that Create performs well in addressing the IOC problem. The proposed method can identify company internal organizational charts accurately while maintaining confidentiality and security. This study provides valuable insights into how companies can leverage ESNs' power while ensuring smooth operations through effective management structures. Overall, this research contributes significantly to the field of organizational management by providing an innovative solution for inferring internal organizational charts using online social networks within a company's framework.
AI-generated keywords: Organizational Chart Inference Create Enterprise Social Networks (ESNs) Internal Management Structure Unsupervised Method

AI-generated Key Points

  • Enterprise social networks (ESNs) have revolutionized communication and collaboration in many companies
  • ESNs provide professional services to help employees tackle daily work issues
  • Hierarchical organization of employees according to their ranks can make it challenging to manage operations smoothly
  • Organizational charts are used to outline the internal management structure visually, but they are usually confidential due to privacy and security concerns
  • "Organizational Chart Inference" proposes a novel unsupervised method called Create (ChArT REcovEr) to solve the inference of organizational chart (IOC) problem based on heterogeneous online ESNs launched within a company
  • Create consists of three steps: social stratification of ESN users into different social classes, supervision link inference from managers to subordinates, and consecutive social classes matching to prune redundant supervision links
  • Extensive experiments conducted on real-world online ESN datasets demonstrate that Create performs well in addressing the IOC problem while maintaining confidentiality and security
  • This study provides valuable insights into how companies can leverage ESNs' power while ensuring smooth operations through effective management structures.
Also access our AI generated: Comprehensive summary, Lay summary, Blog-like article; or ask questions about this paper to our AI assistant.

Abstract: Nowadays, to facilitate the communication and cooperation among employees, a new family of online social networks has been adopted in many companies, which are called the "enterprise social networks" (ESNs). ESNs can provide employees with various professional services to help them deal with daily work issues. Meanwhile, employees in companies are usually organized into different hierarchies according to the relative ranks of their positions. The company internal management structure can be outlined with the organizational chart visually, which is normally confidential to the public out of the privacy and security concerns. In this paper, we want to study the IOC (Inference of Organizational Chart) problem to identify company internal organizational chart based on the heterogeneous online ESN launched in it. IOC is very challenging to address as, to guarantee smooth operations, the internal organizational charts of companies need to meet certain structural requirements (about its depth and width). To solve the IOC problem, a novel unsupervised method Create (ChArT REcovEr) is proposed in this paper, which consists of 3 steps: (1) social stratification of ESN users into different social classes, (2) supervision link inference from managers to subordinates, and (3) consecutive social classes matching to prune the redundant supervision links. Extensive experiments conducted on real-world online ESN dataset demonstrate that Create can perform very well in addressing the IOC problem.

Submitted to arXiv on 24 Jul. 2015

Tools for this paper

Explain it differently 3 free rewrites left today
Export BibTeX · RIS (Zotero, Mendeley, EndNote) · Markdown (Notion, Obsidian) · Premium
Citation alerts Premium
Journal club Slides to present it Premium
For journalists Press kit and hype check Premium

Ask questions about this paper to our AI assistant

You can also chat with multiple papers at once here.

⚠The license of the paper does not allow us to build upon its content and the AI assistant only knows about the paper metadata rather than the full article.

Figures and plots

Ask about a figure by number or use its question button to request visual analysis. Up to two figures and four image panels per question. Values read from plots are approximate; check the original data.

AI assistant instructions?

Assess the quality of the AI-generated content by voting

Score: 0

Why do we need votes?

Votes are used to determine whether we need to re-run our summarizing tools. If the count reaches -10, our tools can be restarted.

The previous summary was created more than a year ago and can be re-run (if necessary) by clicking on the Run button below.

⚠The license of this specific paper does not allow us to build upon its content and the summarizing tools will be run using the paper metadata rather than the full article. However, it still does a good job, and you can also try our tools on papers with more open licenses.

Similar papers summarized with our AI tools

Navigate through even more similar papers through a

tree representation

Disclaimer: The AI-based summarization tool and virtual assistant provided on this website may not always provide accurate and complete summaries or responses. We encourage you to carefully review and evaluate the generated content to ensure its quality and relevance to your needs.