In this paper, we present a multi-agent system implementing a fully distributed Social Network System supporting user profiles as FOAF profiles. This system is built around the ide...
How is work created, assigned, and completed on large-scale, crowd-powered systems like Wikipedia? And what design principles might enable these federated online systems to be mor...
Michel Krieger, Emily Margarete Stark, Scott R. Kl...
In this paper we present an IRTL (Information Resource Transaction Layer) middleware architecture that addresses some of the important technical challenges associated with heterog...
Junseok Hwang, Praveen Aravamudham, Elizabeth D. L...
—Within collaborative computing, computer mediated communications are evolving rapidly thanks to the development of new technologies. The facilitation of awareness and discovery ...
We describe an extensible constructor tool that helps information experts (e.g., librarians) create specialized query synthesizers for heterogeneous digital-library environments. ...
Michelle Q. Wang Baldonado, Seth Katz, Andreas Pae...