This paper focuses on agent-based approach to study the relationship between the individual behavior of participants and the overall development of a virtual community, to help pe...
Peer-to-Peer, or P2P sharing has gone through fast growth in recent years and drawn the interests of Information Systems (IS) researchers. However, there is a lack of empirical st...
Abstract— We compare two alternative mechanisms for capping prices in two-settlement electricity markets. With sufficient lead time and competitive entry opportunities, forward ...
Jian Yao, Bert Willems, Shmuel S. Oren, Ilan Adler
Discourse, a form of collaborative learning [44], is one of the most widely used methods of teaching and learning in the online environment. Particularly in large courses, discour...
I. Wong-Bushby, Starr Roxanne Hiltz, Michael Biebe...
The goal of a Public-Key-Infrastructure (PKI) is to prove whether a cryptographic public key is authentic for a certain user. This information is crucial for the reliability of as...
Vertical IS standards prescribe data structures and definitions, document formats, and business processes for particular industries, in contrast to horizontal IT standards, which ...
Rolf T. Wigand, Charles W. Steinfield, M. Lynne Ma...
This paper presents first a review of recent advancements in the theory of knowledge creation, starting with Shinayakana Systems Approach of Sawaragi and Nakamori and The Knowledg...
Prior characterizations of open source projects have been based on the model of a community-founded project. More recently, a second model has emerged, where organizations spinout...
This paper examines the learning behavior of online students in an asynchronous learning environment. We employ the theoretical lens of an online community of inquiry, to understa...