HCI
2009
13 years 8 months ago
2009
Virtual communities that make use of social network site features blend known applications of virtual communities. These communities can be simultaneously social and commercial, or...
IJWBC
2010
13 years 9 months ago
2010
: Virtual communities play an important part in enabling people with common interests to interact with each other. Current research mostly focuses on the aspects of social interact...
ELECTRONICMARKETS
2000
13 years 10 months ago
2000
Bringing communities of buyers and sellers together in the arena of electronic commerce stimulates three major potentials: the building of trust, the collection and effective use ...
CONNECTION
2002
13 years 10 months ago
2002
This paper explores the general landscape of virtual communities and reflects upon their relevance to their agent community counterparts. It examines several disparate virtual com...
ENTCS
2006
13 years 11 months ago
2006
Community decisions about access control in virtual communities are non-monotonic in nature. This means that they cannot be expressed in current, monotonic trust management langua...
CORR
2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2008
Springer
This paper examines the possibility of discovering 'hidden' (potential) Communities of Practice (CoPs) inside electronic networks, and then using this knowledge to nurtu...
ICIS
1997
14 years 5 days ago
1997
Although the potential impacts of virtual communities have been widely recognized in business and academia, little research has been done to provide guidelines for design of such ...
IQ
2001
14 years 6 days ago
2001
This paper examines why the rise of computermediated communication, driven by dramatically lowered cost, creates new structural problems from an information quality standpoint. We...
IADIS
2004
14 years 7 days ago
2004
Interactive entertainment and specifically computer games has grown into a multi-billion industry in the last few years and continues to grow. This expansion has fueled a number o...
WONTO
2008
14 years 8 days ago
2008
This paper describes the development of a framework to build Virtual Communities of Practice in the web. It is part of a larger project named as DWeb (acronym for Dream Web). The p...