Rational and selfish nodes in P2P systems usually lack effective incentives to cooperate, contributing to the increase of free-riders, and degrading the system performance. Variou...
This paper considers the theory of social capital and volunteerism in an online gaming community, the Internet Chess Club (ICC). We discuss how increased social capital provides b...
The terms that are used by users during tagging have been found to be different from the terms that are used when searching for resources, which represents a fundamental problem f...
"Open contribution systems" (OCS) are online applications that encourage users to contribute and share content in a "public" and open manner. While these syste...
Due to their characteristics and claimed advantages, several researchers have been investigating free and open-source projects. Different aspects are being studied: for instance, ...
Samuel Felix de Sousa Jr., Marco Antonio Balieiro,...