Abstract. Communication technologies, such as e-mail, instant messaging, discussion forums, blogs, and newsgroups connect people together, forming virtual communities. This concept...
Florian Skopik, Hong Linh Truong, Schahram Dustdar
The World Wide Web grows through a decentralized, almost anarchic process, and this has resulted in a large hyperlinked corpus without the kind of logical organization that can be...
David Gibson, Jon M. Kleinberg, Prabhakar Raghavan
Many Governments are using funding initiatives to encourage businesses, particularly small businesses to adopt e-commerce technology. One currently popular approach in Australia, ...
Many systems exist for community formation in extensions of traditional Web environments but little work has been done for forming and maintaining communities in the more dynamic e...
Searching posts effectively has become an important issue in large-scale online communities. Especially, if search users have different inclinations when they search posts, they h...