Under-contribution is a problem for many online communities. Social psychology theories of social loafing and goal-setting can provide mid-level design principles to address this ...
Gerard Beenen, Kimberly S. Ling, Xiaoqing Wang, Kl...
Communication of one’s location as part of a social discourse is common practice, and we use a variety of technologies to satisfy this need. This practice suggests a potentially ...
Ian E. Smith, Sunny Consolvo, Anthony LaMarca, Jef...
Argumentation-based negotiation (ABN) provides agents with an effective means to resolve conflicts within a multi-agent society. However, to engage in such argumentative encounter...
Nishan C. Karunatillake, Nicholas R. Jennings, Iya...
Personal media collections are often viewed and managed along the social dimension, the places we spend time at and the people we see, thus tools for extracting and using this inf...
As more people take part in online conversations, awareness of the varying conversational styles and social mores afforded by different software is growing. However, this awarenes...
Abstract. Software systems are becoming more and more part of human life influencing organizational and social activities. This introduces the need of considering the design of a ...
Abstract—We present an extended version of a software system SIGHTS1 (Statistical Identification of Groups Hidden in Time and Space), which can be used for the discovery, analys...
Jeffrey Baumes, Mark K. Goldberg, Mykola Hayvanovy...
This paper investigates the impacts of individual egoistic and altruistic behaviors in a virtual society built upon the Vidya game, used here as the social simulation and Multiage...
Abstract. We put forward an architectural framework that promotes the externalisation of the social dimension that arises in software-intensive systems which, like in healthcare, e...
This paper presents a multi-agent framework designed to simulate synthetic humans that properly balance task oriented and social behaviors. The work presented in this paper focuses...
Francisco Grimaldo, Miguel Lozano, Fernando Barber