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IJNVO
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
Sociological factors affecting trust development in virtual communities
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...
Farhad Daneshgar, Sharon Ho
CEC
2007
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
An experimental study of the emergent behaviors of self-organized agent communities
—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...
Shufeng Wang, Hong Zhu
ICDIM
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Incentives for resource sharing in self-organized communities: From economics to social psychology
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...
Panayotis Antoniadis, Bénédicte Le G...
MABS
1998
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
Agent-Based Modeling vs. Equation-Based Modeling: A Case Study and Users' Guide
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...
H. Van Dyke Parunak, Robert Savit, Rick L. Riolo
HICSS
2005
IEEE
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14 years 1 months ago
Strategies Employed By Participants In Virtual Learning Communities
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...
James Waters, Susan Gasson