Government agencies globally are facing problems such as illegal immigration, terrorism, and disease diagnosis and control. Solutions to these problems rely heavily on collaborati...
Seema Degwekar, Jeff DePree, Stanley Y. W. Su, How...
The key objective of communal knowledge sharing at the scale of the World Wide Web is the ability to collaborate and integrate within and between communities. Ontologies, being fo...
This paper discusses the role of conversation and social interactions as the key element of effective knowledge sharing in an agile process. It also presents the observations made...
As knowledge becomes the primary focus of work in many industries, virtual communities and groups are emerging as part of new organizational forms. Within these virtual forms, eff...
Preserving and fostering knowledge is the vital interest of a network-like virtual organization. The decentralized and geographically distributed organizational structure inhibits...
This paper presents a system called AgentSalon, which facilitates face-to-face knowledge exchange and discussion by people having shared interests, in museums, schools, offices, a...
There is an establishing trend towards the socialization of the web. Virtual communities are becoming very popular web spaces for collaboration and knowledge sharing. However, stu...
The notion of supply chains has been current for some time in the literature and in practice. Recently this has been extended to consider so-called extended enterprises. The paper...
This paper describes a program of research designed to understand how knowledge-sharing and learning can be supported in virtual communities. To conduct this research, we propose ...
Michael Bieber, Il Im, Ronald E. Rice, Ricki Goldm...
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....