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TELECARE
2004
275views Healthcare» more  TELECARE 2004»
13 years 8 months ago
TeleCARE Time Bank: A Virtual Community supported by Mobile Agents
The virtual community concept, when supported by adequate ICT and organizational infrastructures, represents a very promising approach for a new philosophy in elderly care and acti...
Octavio Castolo, Filipa Ferrada, Luis M. Camarinha...
PAAMS
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Dynamic Orchestration of Distributed Services on Interactive Community Displays: The ALIVE Approach
Interconnected service providers constitute a highly dynamic, complex, distributed environment. Multi-agent system design-methodologies have been trying to address this kind of env...
Ignasi Gómez-Sebastià, Manel Palau, ...
JECR
2002
144views more  JECR 2002»
13 years 6 months ago
Enabling E-Commerce Growth through the Social Construction of a Virtual Community's Culture
This research paper investigates the elements that encouraged people to visit and actively participate in a virtual community, and eventually leading its guests to purchase from i...
Alexander Y. Yap
HICSS
2009
IEEE
101views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2009»
14 years 1 months ago
Virtual Communities: A Bibliometric Analysis
Virtual communities are a popular phenomenon today. They are significantly altering the specifics of how people work, spend their free time and interact socially. Moreover, they h...
Mikko O. J. Laine
AP2PC
2005
Springer
14 years 16 days ago
Optimizing an Incentives' Mechanism for Truthful Feedback in Virtual Communities
We analyze a mechanism that provides strong incentives for the submission of truthful feedback in virtual communities where services are exchanged on a peer-to-peer basis. Lying pe...
Thanasis G. Papaioannou, George D. Stamoulis