We pose a fundamental question in understanding how to identify and design successful communities: What factors predict whether a community will grow and survive in the long term?...
In spite of decades of research on virtual worlds, our understanding of one popular form of virtual world behavior— raiding—remains limited. Raiding is important because it en...
The objective is to investigate two emerging information technologies in graduate studies and scientific cooperation. Internet is the first technology. The open source is the secon...
In this paper, we describe a range of audio problems that impact the effectiveness of audio conferences and detail the solutions we have devised to address these problems. We cond...
Nicole Yankelovich, Jonathan Kaplan, Joe Provino, ...
In many scenarios network design is not enforced by a central authority, but arises from the interactions of several self-interested agents. This is the case of the Internet, wher...
Jocelyne Elias, Fabio Martignon, Konstantin Avrach...