The search for relevant information is often hindered by the initial difficulty in formulating precise requests, and because much knowledge is actually tacit and thus not easily ac...
This paper examines WiInf-Central, the `virtual homeplace' of a student community (on Information Systems) at the University of Hamburg, and focuses on processes of social ide...
Markus Rohde, Leonard Reinecke, Bernd Pape, Moniqu...
Abstract: The article presents a model of the structural properties of virtual communities and the information they can access. It argues that a large part of the information – a...
Abstract. We present PlanetP, a peer-to-peer (P2P) content search and retrieval infrastructure targeting communities wishing to share large sets of text documents. P2P computing is...
Francisco Matias Cuenca-Acuna, Christopher Peery, ...
The aim of education is to provide the basis for life long learning and improvement. In this direction, schools and universities offer standard curricula aiming to cover the fundam...