Emergence of the web and online computing applications gave rise to rich large scale social activity data. One of the principal challenges then is to build models and understandin...
The processes by which communities come together, attract new members, and develop over time is a central research issue in the social sciences -- political movements, professiona...
Lars Backstrom, Daniel P. Huttenlocher, Jon M. Kle...
Online communities need regular maintenance activities such as moderation and data input, tasks that typically fall to community owners. Communities that allow all members to part...
Dan Cosley, Dan Frankowski, Sara B. Kiesler, Loren...
The Health-e-Waterways Project is a collaboration between the University of Queensland, Microsoft Research and the South East Queensland Healthy Waterways Partnership (SEQ-HWP) (a...
Abdulmonem Alabri, Jane Hunter, Catharine van Inge...
An emerging trend in Web computing aims at collecting and integrating distributed data. For instance, community driven efforts recently have build ontological repositories made of...