Social media, by its very nature, introduces questions about ownership. Ownership comes into play most crucially when we investigate how social media is saved or archived; how it ...
Virtual worlds can allow conversational participants to achieve common ground in situations where the information volume and need for clarification is low. We argue in favor of th...
N. Sadat Shami, Thomas Erickson, Wendy A. Kellogg,...
While virtual worlds have evolved to provide a good medium for social communication, they are very primitive in their social and affective communication design. The social communic...
Ranking queries report the top-K results according to a user-defined scoring function. A widely used scoring function is the weighted summation of multiple scores. Often times, u...
Mohamed A. Soliman, Ihab F. Ilyas, Davide Martinen...
Abstract—Memetics is a new science that has attracted increasing attentions in the recent decades. Beyond the formalism of simple hybrids, adaptive hybrids and memetic algorithms...