Rational and selfish nodes in P2P systems usually lack effective incentives to cooperate, contributing to the increase of free-riders, and degrading the system performance. Variou...
This paper considers the theory of social capital and volunteerism in an online gaming community, the Internet Chess Club (ICC). We discuss how increased social capital provides b...
Community wireless networks (CWNs) offer free or affordable Internet access for the purpose of improving the well-being of the community. Many questions have been raised about the...
Abdelnasser Abdelaal, Hesham H. Ali, Deepak Khazan...
This paper describes a robotic system that uses dance as a form of social interaction to explore the properties and importance of rhythmic movement in general social interaction. ...
Marek P. Michalowski, Selma Sabanovic, Hideki Kozi...
We report on the use of reinforcement learning with Cobot, a software agent residing in the wellknown online community LambdaMOO. Our initial work on Cobot (Isbell et al.2000) pro...
Charles Lee Isbell Jr., Christian R. Shelton, Mich...