Community Awareness in Academic Social Networks

The evolution of Social Networks during the last decades has been characterized with a plethora of research activities, that attempt to introduce pervasive features in order to enhance users' experience. However, there has been minimum effort regarding Academic Social Networks. One of the most studied features, is the recommendation of researchers for possible collaboration. In this paper, in order to enhance researchers' experience on Academic Social Networks, we introduce the use of communities. We also present the proposed systems architecture including Business Processes and Services.