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APSEC
2005
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Supporting Knowledge Collaboration Using Social Networks in a Large-Scale Online Community of Software Development Projects
The scale-free network shown in the small world phenomenon indicates that our human society consists of a small number of people who play the role of hubs linked with many nodes (...
Masao Ohira, Tetsuya Ohoka, Takeshi Kakimoto, Naok...
HICSS
2005
IEEE
191views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2005»
14 years 2 months ago
Business Models for Online Communities: The Case of the Virtual Worlds Industry in China
The rapid growth of Internet usage has enabled many new online communities to develop. A particularly interesting phenomenon that has arisen through Internet communities is the vi...
Ian MacInnes, Lili Hu
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Motivations to participate in online communities
A consistent theoretical and practical challenge in the design of socio-technical systems is that of motivating users to participate in and contribute to them. This study examines...
Cliff Lampe, Rick Wash, Alcides Velasquez, Elif Oz...
SIGMOD
2010
ACM
184views Database» more  SIGMOD 2010»
14 years 1 months ago
Load-balanced query dissemination in privacy-aware online communities
We propose a novel privacy-preserving distributed infrastructure in which data resides only with the publishers owning it. The infrastructure disseminates user queries to publishe...
Emiran Curtmola, Alin Deutsch, K. K. Ramakrishnan,...
DASFAA
2004
IEEE
134views Database» more  DASFAA 2004»
14 years 4 days ago
Applying Co-training to Clickthrough Data for Search Engine Adaptation
The information on the World Wide Web is growing without bound. Users may have very diversified preferences in the pages they target through a search engine. It is therefore a chal...
Qingzhao Tan, Xiaoyong Chai, Wilfred Ng, Dik Lun L...