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ICWE
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Trust and Reputation Mining in Professional Virtual Communities
Abstract. Communication technologies, such as e-mail, instant messaging, discussion forums, blogs, and newsgroups connect people together, forming virtual communities. This concept...
Florian Skopik, Hong Linh Truong, Schahram Dustdar
CSCW
2011
ACM
13 years 2 months ago
Virtual gifts and guanxi: supporting social exchange in a chinese online community
Significant cultural differences persist between East and West. Software systems that have been proven to operate efficiently within one culture can fail in the context of the oth...
Jiang Yang, Mark S. Ackerman, Lada A. Adamic
ATAL
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
A virtual laboratory for studying long-term relationships between humans and virtual agents
Longitudinal studies of human-virtual agent interaction are expensive and time consuming to conduct. We present a new concept and tool for conducting such studies—the virtual la...
Timothy W. Bickmore, Daniel Schulman
BERTINORO
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Self-Management of Virtual Paths in Dynamic Networks
Abstract Virtual path management in dynamic networks poses a number of challenges related to combinatorial optimisation, fault and traffic handling. Ideally such management should ...
Poul E. Heegaard, Otto Wittner, Bjarne E. Helvik
ETS
2000
IEEE
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13 years 7 months ago
A Framework for Enabling an Internet Learning Community
We view the Internet as a "virtual laboratory" and have developed a framework to support experiments in web-based community learning. Our system is called the Community ...
Elizabeth Sklar, Jordan B. Pollack