Abstract. An algorithm to detect invisible relevant persons in a homogeneous social network is studied with computer simulation. The network is effective as a model for contempora...
Online communities like Flickr, del.icio.us and YouTube have established themselves as very popular and powerful services for publishing and searching contents, but also for ident...
Tom Crecelius, Mouna Kacimi, Sebastian Michel, Tho...
A challenge for many online production communities is to direct their members to accomplish tasks that are important to the group, even when these tasks may not match individual m...
Peer production systems rely on users to self-select appropriate tasks and “scratch their personal itch”. However, many such systems require significant maintenance work, whic...
Aniket Kittur, Bryan A. Pendleton, Robert E. Kraut
A voting system is a set of rules that a community adopts to take collective decisions. In this paper we study voting systems for a particular kind of community: electronically me...
Paolo Boldi, Francesco Bonchi, Carlos Castillo, Se...