Community is a common phenomenon in natural ecosystems, human societies as well as artificial multi-agent systems such as those in web and Internet based applications. In many sel...
Research on trolls is scarce, but their activities challenge online communities; one of the main challenges of the Wikipedia community is to fight against v...
Detecting communities in real world networks is an important problem for data analysis in science and engineering. By clustering nodes intelligently, a recursive algorithm is desig...
Large-scale socially-generated metadata is one of the key features driving the growth and success of the emerging Social Web. Recently there have been many research efforts to stu...
In recent years, we have witnessed a significant growth of "social computing" services, or online communities where users contribute content in various forms, including ...
Learning Communities in healthcare is one approach in supporting practitioners and nurses to improve skills and knowledge and consequently support patients more efficiently. Web b...
We view the Internet as a "virtual laboratory" and have developed a framework to support experiments in web-based community learning. Our system is called the Community ...
In an evolving community consisting of many individuals, it is often the case that the individuals tend, over time, to become more specialized in performing the tasks necessary fo...
Collaboration increasingly takes place in virtual communities using the Internet. These communities are socio-technical systems that tend to evolve strongly and become more comple...
This paper explores a new approach to community building. It is based on the concept of salutogenesis; a proactive approach to community health which seeks preventative measures i...