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HICSS
2009
IEEE
127views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
A Conceptual and Operational Definition of 'Social Role' in Online Community
Both online and off, people frequently perform particular social roles. These roles organize behavior and give structure to positions in local networks. As more of social life bec...
Eric Gleave, Howard T. Welser, Thomas M. Lento, Ma...
IIE
2008
188views more  IIE 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
Exploring Individual and Collaborative Dimensions of Knowledge Building in an Online Learning Community of Practice
Abstract. An exploratory study of students' engagement in online learning and knowledge building is presented in this paper. Learning in an online community, composed of stude...
Lina Markauskaite, Louise M. Sutherland
WWW
2006
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Bringing communities to the semantic web and the semantic web to communities
In this paper we consider the types of community networks that are most often codified within the Semantic Web. We propose the recognition of a new structure which fulfils the def...
K. Faith Lawrence, Monica M. C. Schraefel
ACMSE
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Discovering communities in complex networks
We propose an efficient and novel approach for discovering communities in real-world random networks. Communities are formed by subsets of nodes in a graph, which are closely rela...
Hemant Balakrishnan, Narsingh Deo
KDD
2009
ACM
379views Data Mining» more  KDD 2009»
14 years 2 days ago
MetaFac: community discovery via relational hypergraph factorization
This paper aims at discovering community structure in rich media social networks, through analysis of time-varying, multi-relational data. Community structure represents the laten...
Yu-Ru Lin, Jimeng Sun, Paul Castro, Ravi B. Konuru...