This study explores how people trust each other in Virtual Communities (VCs). The online presence is certainly different from the physical world.; the broad question in this resea...
—Emergent behavior is an essential feature in multi-agent systems and plays a significant role in the applications of agent technology. Because of the huge gap between individual...
In this position paper we analyze the benefits of enabling virtual communities to self-organize and introduce a novel research direction for providing incentives, required in this...
In many domains, agent-based system modeling competes with equation-based approaches that identify system variables and evaluate or integrate sets of equations relating these varia...
This paper examines the learning behavior of online students in an asynchronous learning environment. We employ the theoretical lens of an online community of inquiry, to understa...