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HICSS
2005
IEEE
124views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2005»
14 years 1 months ago
Bounded in Cyberspace: An Empirical Model of Self-Regulation in Virtual Communities
This article aims to focus on self-regulation mechanisms that are exercised by virtual communities in order to maintain their boundaries of autonomy while directing behavior of th...
Karine Barzilai-Nahon, Seev Neumann
TELECARE
2004
275views Healthcare» more  TELECARE 2004»
13 years 8 months ago
TeleCARE Time Bank: A Virtual Community supported by Mobile Agents
The virtual community concept, when supported by adequate ICT and organizational infrastructures, represents a very promising approach for a new philosophy in elderly care and acti...
Octavio Castolo, Filipa Ferrada, Luis M. Camarinha...
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Finding core members in virtual communities
Finding the core members of a virtual community is an important problem in community analysis. Here we presented an simulated annealing algorithm to solve this problem by optimizi...
Haiqiang Chen, Xueqi Cheng, Yue Liu
IICS
2010
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Actors-media-qualities: a Generic Model for Information Retrieval in Virtual Communities
Abstract: The article presents a model of the structural properties of virtual communities and the information they can access. It argues that a large part of the information – a...
Gregor Heinrich
IQ
2001
13 years 9 months ago
Managing Information Quality in Virtual Communities of Practice
This paper examines why the rise of computermediated communication, driven by dramatically lowered cost, creates new structural problems from an information quality standpoint. We...
Andreas Neus