— In this paper, we propose a cost-based model to evaluate the resources that each node has to contribute for participating in an overlay network. Such a cost model allows to gau...
Abstract. Sharing of structured data in decentralized environments is a challenging problem, especially in the absence of a global schema. Social network structures map network lin...
Verena Kantere, Dimitrios Tsoumakos, Timos K. Sell...
In this work we analyze the behavior on a company-internal social network site to determine which interaction patterns signal closeness between colleagues. Regression analysis sug...
Based on qualitative analysis of three groups collaborating on a research task in a distributed setting, we identify four breakdowns in creativity: (1) Minority ideas were under-c...
: Advances in wireless communication and mobile computing extend collaboration scenarios. Mobile workers using computing devices are currently able to collaborate in order to carry...