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ECIS
2003
13 years 7 months ago
Application of the theory of organized activity to the coordination of social information systems
Co-ordination is seen as a fundamental aspect of organisational activity where computers can help. This is motivated by the need to reconcile the conflicts that arise from the div...
José A. Moinhos Cordeiro, Joaquim Filipe
GECCO
2011
Springer
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12 years 9 months ago
An agent-based model of the effects of a primate social structure on the speed of natural selection
The rate of speciation is in most mammals an order of magnitude faster than in most other vertebrates. It is faster still in the social mammals. The apparent association between c...
Gideon M. Gluckman, Joanna Bryson
ECIS
2001
13 years 7 months ago
Structuration Theory and Information System Development - Frameworks for Practice
Giddens' structuration theory (ST) offers an account of social life in terms of social practices developing and changing over time and space, which makes no attempt to direct...
Jeremy Rose, Rens Scheepers
GROUP
2009
ACM
14 years 8 days ago
Motivated by information: information about online collective action as an incentive for participation
This paper describes research focused on understanding the role of incomplete structural information about online collective action systems in participation decisions. Specificall...
Judd Antin
COOPIS
2004
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Paradigms for Decentralized Social Filtering Exploiting Trust Network Structure
Recommender systems, notably collaborative and hybrid information filtering approaches, vitally depend on neighborhood formation, i.e., selecting small subsets of most relevant pee...
Cai-Nicolas Ziegler, Georg Lausen