The efficient management of complex objects has become an enabling technology for modern multimedia information systems as well as for many novel database applications. Unfortunat...
Hans-Peter Kriegel, Peter Kunath, Martin Pfeifle, ...
We report on analysis of discussions in an online community of people with chronic illness using socio-cognitively motivated, automatically produced semantic spaces. The analysis ...
Robert McArthur, Peter Bruza, Jim Warren, Debbie K...
This paper discusses the problem of how to grow and evolve virtual infrastructures that support the development and growth of geographically dispersed research communities. It wil...
Monica M. C. Schraefel, Janet Ho, Mark H. Chignell...
In this paper we present the experiences of usage of Viras, a collaborative virtual environment for social awareness support in educational settings. Collaborative Virtual environ...
This paper proposes a multiagent based virtual community as a new means to support pervasive computing services. We give a conceptual definition of the concept of Place-Based Virt...
Tuan Nguyen, Seng Wai Loke, Torab Torabi, Hongen L...