This article is about the new universal architecture which allows electronic devices of different functionalities and manufacturers, as well as on-line services, to seamlessly int...
Vladimir Krylov, N. Mikhaylov, Dmitry V. Ponomarev
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...
In this position paper we analyze the benefits of enabling virtual communities to self-organize and introduce a novel research direction for providing incentives, required in this...
A virtual community is a group of people whose shared needs and/or interests are largely communicated within, and mediated by Webenabled interactions, e.g., within a Website. Whil...
Janet Ho, Monica M. C. Schraefel, Mark H. Chignell
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...
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...
This paper describes a program of research designed to understand how knowledge-sharing and learning can be supported in virtual communities. To conduct this research, we propose ...
Michael Bieber, Il Im, Ronald E. Rice, Ricki Goldm...
The effectiveness of support provided to virtual communities depends strongly on what we know about a particular community of people and in what areas the community needs support....
Organizations increasingly coordinate their product and service development processes to deliver their products and services as fast as possible, and to involve employees, custome...
This paper discusses the development of virtual communities and especially e-learning communities. In particular, this paper is inspired by VirRAD European project, and presents t...
Christos Bouras, Eri Giannaka, Vaggelis Kapoulas, ...