: In this paper, we have focused on using the bolero.net community in the semantic web and grid environment. Bolero.net represents a community with the ambitious initiatives to sta...
Community networks emerged in North America during the late 1970s and early 1980s. During the past three decades, paradigms for networked information, services, and collaboration ...
The general purpose of the scholarly communication process is to support the creation and dissemination of ideas within the scientific community. At a finer granularity, there exi...
In this paper, we introduce a game-theoretic framework to address the community detection problem based on the structures of social networks. We formulate the dynamics of community...
Community effects on the behaviour of individuals, the community itself and other communities can be observed in a wide range of applications. This is true in scientific research,...
: Media are explored to envision, to design, and to implement platforms for knowledge management within communities. They actively shape, support and develop the community being re...
Virtual learning communities bring together people from diverse backgrounds and provide the basis for knowledge construction and sharing. Important processes for the community to f...
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) become particularly relevant in contexts where place-based communities get dispersed and migrants look for ways to keep strong con...
The effectiveness of support provided to virtual communities depends strongly on what we know about a particular community of people and in what areas the community needs support....
In this paper, we establish the definition of community fundamentally different from what was commonly accepted in previous studies, where communities were typically assumed to ...