International forces in Afghanistan have experienced difficulties in developing constructive engagements with the Afghan population, an experience familiar to a wide range of inter...
Thomas W. Moore, Patrick D. Finley, Ryan J. Hammer...
A commonly encountered view of computer conferencing focuses on peer interaction, student empowerment and a shift in both teacher and student roles. This paper argues that this vi...
Ann C. Jones, Eileen Scanlon, Canan Tosunoglu Blak...
We report on the use of reinforcement learning with Cobot, a software agent residing in the wellknown online community LambdaMOO. Our initial work on Cobot (Isbell et al.2000) pro...
Charles Lee Isbell Jr., Christian R. Shelton, Mich...
—Social networks exhibit a very special property: community structure. Understanding the network community structure is of great advantages. It not only provides helpful informat...
Nam P. Nguyen, Thang N. Dinh, Ying Xuan, My T. Tha...
For effective cooperation, sharing of resources, a good social climate and therefore better learning, students need to maintain awareness of the social situation in a group or a c...