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HT
2011
ACM
13 years 13 days ago
Social capital increases efficiency of collaboration among Wikipedia editors
In this study we measure the impact of pre-existing social capital on the efficiency of collaboration among Wikipedia editors. To construct a social network among Wikipedians we l...
Keiichi Nemoto, Peter A. Gloor, Rob Laubacher
WWW
2009
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Retaining personal expression for social search
Web is being extensively used for personal expression, which includes ratings, reviews, recommendations, blogs. This user created content, e.g. book review on Amazon.com, becomes ...
Praphul Chandra, Ajay Gupta
SEMWEB
2009
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Live Social Semantics
Abstract. Social interactions are one of the key factors to the success of conferences and similar community gatherings. This paper describes a novel application that integrates da...
Harith Alani, Martin Szomszor, Ciro Cattuto, Woute...
IAT
2009
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Topology and Memory Effect on Convention Emergence
Abstract—Social conventions are useful self-sustaining protocols for groups to coordinate behavior without a centralized entity enforcing coordination. We perform an in-depth stu...
Daniel Villatoro, Sandip Sen, Jordi Sabater-Mir
CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Topological analysis of an online social network for older adults
Social network systems on the Internet, such MySpace and LinkedIn, are growing in popularity around the world. The level of such activity is now comparable to that associated with...
Marcella Wilson, Charles K. Nicholas