A consistent theoretical and practical challenge in the design of socio-technical systems is that of motivating users to participate in and contribute to them. This study examines...
Cliff Lampe, Rick Wash, Alcides Velasquez, Elif Oz...
The indexicality of language refers to the linkage between the language and the situation of use for determining the meaning of what is being said. In this paper I describe how a ...
We present a storage management framework for Web 2.0 services that places users back in control of their data. Current Web services complicate data management due to data lock-in...
Neal H. Walfield, Paul T. Stanton, John Linwood Gr...
Access control mechanisms are widely used with the intent of enforcing confidentiality and other policies, but few formal connections have been made between information flow and...
The idea of component based software systems has a long tradition in the field of software engineering. Component markets have been an integral part of this idea. However, such ma...