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ADBIS
2011
Springer
275views Database» more  ADBIS 2011»
12 years 9 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
KDD
2005
ACM
181views Data Mining» more  KDD 2005»
14 years 10 months ago
Evaluating similarity measures: a large-scale study in the orkut social network
Online information services have grown too large for users to navigate without the help of automated tools such as collaborative filtering, which makes recommendations to users ba...
Ellen Spertus, Mehran Sahami, Orkut Buyukkokten
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Measuring the impact of third place attachment on the adoption of a place-based community technology
CoCollage is a placed-based community technology that leverages the power of online social networking to facilitate awareness and face-to-face interactions in a third place. We ad...
Shelly Farnham, Joseph F. McCarthy, Yagnesh Patel,...
GROUP
2010
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
The effects of group composition on decision quality in a social production community
Online social production communities allow efficient construction of valuable and high-quality information sources. To be successful, community members must be effective at collab...
Shyong K. Lam, Jawed Karim, John Riedl
DESRIST
2009
Springer
135views Education» more  DESRIST 2009»
14 years 1 months ago
Towards a design theory for online communities
Online communities are increasingly important in modern social life. Yet, the diverse collection of guidelines that have directed online community design may not be keeping pace w...
David Gurzick, Wayne G. Lutters