Significant cultural differences persist between East and West. Software systems that have been proven to operate efficiently within one culture can fail in the context of the oth...
We analyze typical web portals supporting communication, data sharing and activities of former classmates. The inflexibility and restrictions imposed on users of such portals are ...
The Web plays a critical role in hosting Web communities, their content and interactions. A prime example is the open source software (OSS) community, whose members, including sof...
Anupriya Ankolekar, Katia P. Sycara, James D. Herb...
Abundance of user contributions does not necessarily indicate sustainability of an online community. On the contrary, excessive contributions in the systems may result in informati...
This paper considers the problem of computer user support and workplace learning in general. Theoretically our work is influenced by ideas on knowledge management, expertise netwo...