Skillrank: Towards a Hybrid Method to Assess Quality and Confidence of Professional Skills in Social Networks

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Skillrank pseudocode. Reinterpreting the SPEAR algorithm [18, 19].

Input: Number of users  

Input: Number of skills  

Input: A set of skills  

Input: Credit scoring function    (the same as in the standard SPEAR)

Input: Number of iterations  

Output: A list    of users.

()   Set    to be the vector  

()   Set    to be the vector  

()     Generate Adjacency Matrix  ()

()   for to    do

()    

()    

()    Normalize  

()    Normalize  

()   end for

()   Sort users by their expertise scores in    and quality skills scores in  

() return