Legitimacy is a key part of the social requirements specification for a trusted virtual community environment (VCE). If an environment is not seen as legitimate, social conflicts m...
This paper proposes a knowledge map management system to facilitate knowledge management in virtual communities of practice. To realize the proposed knowledge map management, we d...
This paper outlines the privacy concerns in the CrossCommunity Reputation (CCR) model for sharing reputation knowledge across communities. These privacy concerns are discussed and...
This Research in Progress paper analyses users’ requirements for the development of a Virtual Community (VC) for the academic SAP UCC (University Competence Center) User Group. ...
Winfried Ebner, Ulrich Bretschneider, Jan Marco Le...
This paper is about support for the exchange of information and knowledge among researchers. We introduce the concepts of open archives and grey literature, which provide valuable...