Online communities of different types have become an important part of the daily internet life of many people within the last couple of years. Both research and business have show...
In recent years, we have witnessed a significant growth of "social computing" services, or online communities where users contribute content in various forms, including ...
As web-based online communities are rapidly growing, the agents in the communities need to know their measurable belief of trust for safe and successful interactions. In this pape...
Online communities that allow their users to express their personal preferences, such as the members they trust and the products they appreciate, are becoming increasingly popular...
An ever-growing number of users participate in online communities such as Flickr, del.icio.us , and YouTube , making friends and sharing content. Users come to these sites to fin...
Sihem Amer-Yahia, Michael Benedikt, Philip Bohanno...
Web 2.0 applications like Flickr, YouTube, or Del.icio.us are increasingly popular online communities for creating, editing and sharing content. However, the rapid increase in siz...
Several years of consulting with online community hosts and managers have highlighted a variety of issues that recur across many online community development efforts. We summarize...
Danyel Fisher, Tammara Combs Turner, Marc A. Smith
Abstract. SIOC provides the Semantic Web with a vocabulary for representing the state of online communities at a given time. However, a number of web application put a strong empha...
Users of online communities are commonly classified into active members versus lurkers. In this work we experiment with a method designed to encourage lurkers to share their acqui...
Rosta Farzan, Joan Morris DiMicco, Beth Brownholtz
As online communities proliferate, methods are needed to explore and capture patterns of activity within them. This paper focuses on the problem of identifying active subgroups wi...