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ADBIS
2011
Springer
275views Database» more  ADBIS 2011»
12 years 8 months ago
An Analysis of the Structure and Dynamics of Large-Scale Q/A Communities
Abstract. In recent years, the World Wide Web (WWW) has transformed to a gigantic social network where people interact and collaborate in diverse online communities. By using Web 2...
Daniel Schall, Florian Skopik
CSE
2009
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Real World Routing Using Virtual World Information
—In this paper, we propose to leverage social graphs from Online Social Networks (OSN) to improve the forwarding efficiency of mobile networks, more particularly Delay Tolerant ...
Pan Hui, Nishanth R. Sastry
ETS
2000
IEEE
182views Hardware» more  ETS 2000»
13 years 8 months ago
Conferencing in communities of learners: examples from social history and science communication
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...
HICSS
2009
IEEE
123views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2009»
14 years 3 months ago
Users' Influence on the Success of Online Communities
This paper examines how different facets of favorable user behavior drive the success of an online community by using a unique data set with surveys from 1,389 participants from t...
Jakob Assmann, Philipp Sandner, Sophie Ahrens
TRUST
2010
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
The Role of Soft Information in Trust Building: Evidence from Online Social Lending
We analyze empirical data of Germany’s largest online social lending platform Smava.de to exemplarily study the contribution of unstructured, ambiguous, or unverified informatio...
Stefanie Pötzsch, Rainer Böhme