community
Overview page. Subjects: Social Sciences — Arts and Humanities.
Many sociological and anthropological definitions exist, but most tend to privilege some combination of small-scale, relative boundedness, strong affective ties, traditionalism, and...
Bringing the internet to the community
in Interacting with Computers
September 1999; p ublished online September 1999 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Human-Computer Interaction. 4816 words.
Current developments in browser technology have largely ignored academic research on interface design in hypermedia systems. This is unlikely to change in the future. Thus, the needs of an...
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Effectiveness of spatial representation in the formation of network communities: experimental study on community organizer
in Interacting with Computers
December 2002; p ublished online December 2002 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Human-Computer Interaction. 6004 words.
In this paper, we present and discuss Community Organizer, a system designed to support network communities. The main characteristic of Community Organizer is the use of spatial...
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Detecting Communities with Different Sizes for Social Network Analysis
in The Computer Journal
September 2015; p ublished online September 2014 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Computer Science. 0 words.
Online community detection is essential for social network analysis. Modularity is a quality function used to measure the strength of the community structure discovered with social...
Infection spreading, detection and control in community networks
in Journal of Complex Networks
August 2017; p ublished online February 2017 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Mathematics; Computer Science. 6065 words.
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Community structures widely exist in various complex networks. Extensive studies have been carried out on defining and quantifying community...
Finding a Friendly Community in Social Networks Considering Bad Relationships
in The Computer Journal
June 2015; p ublished online September 2014 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Computer Science. 0 words.
Community detection in social networks is one of the most active problems with lots of applications. Most of the existing works on the problem have focused on detecting the...
A framework for analyzing and understanding online communities
in Interacting with Computers
June 2004; p ublished online March 2004 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Human-Computer Interaction. 12886 words.
Social interactions in online communities are varied and often complex, as are the communities themselves. The characteristics of the people, the range of purposes they pursue, the type of...
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Exquisite variety: computer as mirror to community
in Interacting with Computers
December 2002; p ublished online December 2002 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Human-Computer Interaction. 9793 words.
An approach is developed to building information systems whose purpose is to express (rather than regulate) the life of a community group. The story of a community group, as understood and...
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Agent mediated retailing in the connected local community
in Interacting with Computers
January 2003; p ublished online January 2003 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Human-Computer Interaction. 11955 words.
This paper reports on and discusses recent research into software agent mediated retailing and considers how it may act as a catalyst to the formation of local electronic retail...
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Community detection: effective evaluation on large social networks
in Journal of Complex Networks
March 2014; p ublished online October 2013 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Mathematics; Computer Science. 9302 words.
While many recently proposed methods aim to detect network communities in large datasets, such as those generated by social media and telecommunications services, most evaluation (i.e....
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Empathic communities: balancing emotional and factual communication
in Interacting with Computers
September 1999; p ublished online September 1999 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Human-Computer Interaction. 6583 words.
The Web empowers a diverse population of users and this is reflected in both the demography and interests of today’s on-line communities. Many of these communities provide an essential...
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Measuring and modeling bipartite graphs with community structure
in Journal of Complex Networks
August 2017; p ublished online March 2017 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Mathematics; Computer Science. 7036 words.
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Network science is a powerful tool for analyzing complex systems in fields ranging from sociology to engineering to biology. This article is focused...
MEI: Mutual Enhanced Infinite Community–Topic Model for Analyzing Text-Augmented Social Networks
in The Computer Journal
March 2013; p ublished online May 2012 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Computer Science. 0 words.
The community and the topic can help summarize the text-augmented social networks. Existing works mixed up the community and the topic by regarding them as the same. However, there is an...
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Detecting Genuine Communities from Large-Scale Social Networks: A Pattern-Based Method
in The Computer Journal
September 2014; p ublished online November 2013 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Computer Science. 0 words.
Community detection is a long-standing yet very difficult task in social network analysis. It becomes more challenging as many online social networking sites are evolving into super-large...
MC2: A Framework and Service for MPEG-7 Content-Modelling Communities
in The Computer Journal
May 2013; p ublished online July 2012 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Computer Science. 0 words.
Harnessing the power of Web communities, the effort on creating metadata can be greatly reduced. Collaborative communities can create, update and maintain content models for multimedia...
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Design and deployment of community systems: reflections on the Campiello experience
in Interacting with Computers
December 2002; p ublished online December 2002 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Human-Computer Interaction. 10989 words.
The last decade has witnessed a growing interest in what technology can do to sustain communities. Within the Campiello project innovative information technologies have been adopted to...
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Mining Latent User Community for Tag-Based and Content-Based Search in Social Media
in The Computer Journal
September 2014; p ublished online April 2014 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Computer Science. 0 words.
In recent years, there has been a proliferation of collaborative tagging systems in Web 2.0 communities. With the increasingly large amount of social data, how to manage and organize them...
A network complexity metric based on planarity and community structure
in Journal of Complex Networks
September 2014; p ublished online February 2014 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Mathematics; Computer Science. 5767 words.
This article proposes a network complexity metric based on the concepts of planarity and network communities. This work considers planarity as an analogue for network complexity. It...
Living memory: agent-based information management for connected local communities
in Interacting with Computers
December 2002; p ublished online December 2002 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Human-Computer Interaction. 10546 words.
We investigate the application of multi-agent systems to develop intelligent information interfaces for connected communities, a class of computer applications aimed at enhancing the way...
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Participating in civil society: the case of networked communities
in Interacting with Computers
January 2005; p ublished online November 2004 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Human-Computer Interaction. 11246 words.
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A community computer network facilitates civic participation by providing pervasive local resources online and by connecting people to local...
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Fast Multi-Scale Detection of Relevant Communities in Large-Scale Networks
in The Computer Journal
September 2013; p ublished online January 2013 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Computer Science. 0 words.
Nowadays, networks are almost ubiquitous. In the past decade, community detection received an increasing interest as a way to uncover the structure of networks by grouping nodes into...
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