We present findings from our study of a music sharing and remixing community in an effort to quantify and understand the structural characteristics of commons-based peer productio...
Purchasing decisions are often strongly influenced by people who the consumer knows and trusts. Moreover, many online shoppers tend to wait for the opinions of early adopters befo...
Data sparsity, scalability and prediction quality have been recognized as the three most crucial challenges that every collaborative filtering algorithm or recommender system conf...
The Social Informatics Data Grid (SIDGrid) is a new cyberinfrastructure designed to transform how social and behavioral scientists collect and annotate data, collaborate and share...
This paper develops a Semantic Web application, namely WorldWideWatch or WWWatch, in short. By employment of Semantic Web technologies, WWWatch analyses and visualizes social netwo...