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WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2008
ACM
Finding the core members of a virtual community is an important problem in community analysis. Here we presented an simulated annealing algorithm to solve this problem by optimizi...
GROUP
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2005
ACM
Many virtual communities involve ongoing discussions, with large numbers of users and established, if implicit rules for participation. As new users enter communities like this, b...
HICSS
2002
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2002
IEEE
E-commerce strategists advise companies to create virtual communities for their customers. But what is involved in establishing and maintaining virtual communities? This paper add...
HICSS
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2008
IEEE
Virtual communities have become an important new organizational form and yet relatively little is known about the conditions which lead to their success. In an attempt to address ...
HICSS
2002
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2002
IEEE
This paper considers the theory of social capital and volunteerism in an online gaming community, the Internet Chess Club (ICC). We discuss how increased social capital provides b...