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CSCW
2012
ACM
12 years 5 months ago
Practices of information and secrecy in a punk rock subculture
By examining the information practices of a punk-rock subculture, we investigate the limits of social media systems, particularly limits exposed by practices of secrecy. Looking a...
Jessica Lingel, Aaron Trammell, Joe Sanchez, Mor N...
ESWS
2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Enhancing Workflow with a Semantic Description of Scientific Intent
Abstract. In the e-Science context, workflow technologies provide a problemsolving environment for researchers by facilitating the creation and execution of experiments from a pool...
Edoardo Pignotti, Peter Edwards, Alun D. Preece, N...
CCGRID
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Performance Optimization for Multi-agent Based Simulation in Grid Environments
Multi-agent based simulation (MABS) is a discrete event simulation technique used to study complex systems with entities having social and autonomous behavior. MABS applications a...
Dawit Mengistu, Peter Tröger
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Modeling and managing collective cognitive convergence
When the same set of people interact frequently with one another, they grow to think more and more along the same lines, a phenomenon we call "collective cognitive convergenc...
H. Van Dyke Parunak, Theodore C. Belding, Rainer H...
CSCW
2010
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Is it really about me?: message content in social awareness streams
In this work we examine the characteristics of social activity and patterns of communication on Twitter, a prominent example of the emerging class of communication systems we call...
Mor Naaman, Jeffrey Boase, Chih-Hui Lai