We develop a novel mechanism for coordinated, distributed multiagent planning. We consider problems stated as a collection of single-agent planning problems coupled by common soft...
Usability supporting architectural patterns (USAPs) have been shown to provide developers with useful guidance for producing a software architecture design that supports usability...
Pia Stoll, Bonnie E. John, Len Bass, Elspeth Golde...
Although some guidelines (e.g., based on architectural principles) have been proposed for designing Virtual Environments (VEs), several usability problems can be identified only b...
Web-based communities have become important places for people to seek and share expertise. We find that networks in these communities typically differ in their topology from other...
The asymmetry of activity in virtual communities is of great interest. While participation in the activities of virtual communities is crucial for a community's survival and ...