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
This paper presents an agent community based peer-to-peer information retrieval method called ACP2P method[16] and discusses the experimental results of the method. The ACP2P metho...
In this position paper we analyze the benefits of enabling virtual communities to self-organize and introduce a novel research direction for providing incentives, required in this...
CT This paper presents results from a study examining perceptions and practices of usability in the free/open source software (FOSS) community. 27 individuals associated with 11 di...
Gatekeeping/Information Control is exercised frequently and daily in virtual communities. Gatekeeping exists in four different levels: Regulators, service providers, communitiesâ€...