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INFSOF
2006
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13 years 4 months ago
A framework for anonymous but accountable self-organizing communities
In this paper we propose a novel architecture and approach to provide accountability for Web communities that require a high-level of privacy. A two-layered privacy protection arc...
Gábor Ziegler, Csilla Farkas, András...
HICSS
2005
IEEE
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13 years 10 months ago
Strategies Employed By Participants In Virtual Learning Communities
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...
James Waters, Susan Gasson
C5
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Suggestions for New Features to Support Collaborative Learning in Virtual Worlds
The authors have some experience in building virtual worlds for education purposes, in archaeology and for language learning. However, many mainstream world-building applications ...
Erik Champion, Sachiyo Sekiguchi
CORR
2010
Springer
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12 years 11 months ago
In Cloud, Can Scientific Communities Benefit from the Economies of Scale?
The basic idea behind cloud computing is that resource providers offer elastic resources to end users. In this paper, we intend to answer one key question to the success of cloud c...
Lei Wang, Jianfeng Zhan, Weisong Shi, Yi Liang
P2PKM
2004
13 years 6 months ago
A Space-Efficient Model for Sharing Personal Knowledge Objects in Peer Communities
Abstract. In the future it is likely that peer communities will be routinely established for the purpose of sharing electronic resources and targeted information among groups of pe...
Fred S. Annexstein, Kenneth A. Berman