: Online communities are islands of people and topics that are not interlinked. Complementary discussions exist on disparate systems but it is currently difficult to exploit the av...
John G. Breslin, Stefan Decker, Andreas Harth, Uld...
Large numbers of college students have become avid Facebook users in a short period of time. In this paper, we explore whether these students are using Facebook to find new people...
One of the important challenges faced by designers of online communities is eliciting sufficent contributions from community members. Users in online communities may have difficul...
Al Mamunur Rashid, Kimberly S. Ling, Regina D. Tas...
The advent of Web technology has enabled new ways in which groups of people may interact, leading to the development of online communities. In an academic environment these virtua...
We introduce Cimple, a joint project between the University of Illinois and the University of Wisconsin. Cimple aims to develop a software platform that can be rapidly deployed an...