There is an establishing trend towards the socialization of the web. Virtual communities are becoming very popular web spaces for collaboration and knowledge sharing. However, stu...
This research paper investigates the elements that encouraged people to visit and actively participate in a virtual community, and eventually leading its guests to purchase from i...
Only few well-maintained domain ontologies can be found on the Web. The likely reasons for the lack of useful domain ontologies include that (1) informal means to convey intended m...
The idea of representing knowledge in formal models gets more and more popular. Since these models are understandable and thus processable by machines, the retrieval of knowledge i...
This paper describes some extensions added to the continuous simulation language OOCSMP to perform agent-oriented simulation. The extensions are tested by simulating the evolution...