Mining different types of communities from web data have attracted a lot of research efforts in recent years. However, none of the existing community mining techniques has taken i...
Qiankun Zhao, Sourav S. Bhowmick, Xin Zheng, Kai Y...
This paper presents the design of a new middleware which provides support for trust and accountability in distributed data sharing communities. One application is in the context of...
Paul Ruth, Dongyan Xu, Bharat K. Bhargava, Fred Re...
We performed a content analysis of the information shared in a locally and culturally focused health application, EatWell. In EatWell, information is shared via the creation of au...
Andrea Grimes, Brian M. Landry, Rebecca E. Grinter
User profiles can be used to identify persons inside a community with similar interests. Folksonomy systems allow users to individually tag the objects of a common set (e.g., web p...
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...