Information visualization leverages the human visual system to support the process of sensemaking, in which information is collected, organized, and analyzed to generate knowledge...
This paper formalizes the semantics of trust and studies the transitivity of trust. On the Web, people and software agents have to interact with “strangers”. This makes trust ...
The vision of semantic interoperability, the fluid sharing of digitalized knowledge, has led much research on ontology/schema mapping/aligning. Although this line of research is f...
Hung-Ju Chu, Randy Y. C. Chow, Su-Shing Chen, Raja...
There is general consensus that critical mass at inception ensures the sustained success of online communities. However, no clear understanding of what constitutes such a 'cr...
Software agents' ability to interact within different open systems, designed by different groups, presupposes an agreement on an unambiguous definition of a set of concepts, ...