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ACE
2004
15 years 1 months ago
2004
The advent of Web technology has enabled new ways in which groups of people may interact, leading to the development of online communities. In an academic environment these virtua...
GROUP
2005
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
2005
ACM
Many virtual communities involve ongoing discussions, with large numbers of users and established, if implicit rules for participation. As new users enter communities like this, b...
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CORR
2006
Springer
14 years 11 months ago
2006
Springer
The objective of this research is to analyse the ways members of open-source software communities participate in design. In particular we focus on how users of an Open Source (OS) ...
CSCW
2004
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
2004
ACM
Under-contribution is a problem for many online communities. Social psychology theories of social loafing and goal-setting can provide mid-level design principles to address this ...
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APSEC
2005
IEEE
15 years 5 months ago
2005
IEEE
The scale-free network shown in the small world phenomenon indicates that our human society consists of a small number of people who play the role of hubs linked with many nodes (...