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IPPS
2006
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Improving cooperation in peer-to-peer systems using social networks
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...
Wenyu Wang, Li Zhao, Ruixi Yuan
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HICSS
2002
IEEE
150views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2002»
15 years 9 months ago
Social Capital and Volunteerism in Virtual Communities: The Case of the Internet Chess Club
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...
Mark Ginsburg, Suzanne P. Weisband
HICSS
2009
IEEE
135views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2009»
15 years 10 months ago
The Role of Social Capital in the Creation of Community Wireless Networks
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...
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HRI
2007
ACM
15 years 7 months ago
A dancing robot for rhythmic social interaction
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...
AGENTS
2001
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
A social reinforcement learning agent
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...