Computational organization theory
Computational organization theory
Referral Web: combining social networks and collaborative filtering
Communications of the ACM
Towards Computation over Communities
Community Computing and Support Systems, Social Interaction in Networked Communities [the book is based on the Kyoto Meeting on Social Interaction and Communityware, held in Kyoto, Japan, in June 1998]
CoMeMo-Community: A System for Supporting Community Knowledge Evolution
Community Computing and Support Systems, Social Interaction in Networked Communities [the book is based on the Kyoto Meeting on Social Interaction and Communityware, held in Kyoto, Japan, in June 1998]
Reconfiguring Community Networks: The Case of PrairieKNOW
Digital Cities, Technologies, Experiences, and Future Perspectives [the book is based on an international symposium held in Kyoto, Japan, in September 1999
Next Generation Community Networking: Futures for Digital Cities
Digital Cities, Technologies, Experiences, and Future Perspectives [the book is based on an international symposium held in Kyoto, Japan, in September 1999
Analyzing peer to peer communication through agent-based simulation
JSAI'05 Proceedings of the 2005 international conference on New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence
Multi-agent modeling of peer to peer communication with scale-free and small-world properties
KES'05 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems - Volume Part IV
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
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The introduction of new communication and information technologies in work communities has primarily been used to create new channels of communication and/or reduce the cost of communication among members in the workplace. Ironically, the prevasiveness of electronic communication media in virtual work communities make it increasingly difficult for individuals to discern social structures. Fortunately, information technologies that are responsible for triggering this problem can also be used to overcome these obstacles. Because information transacted over electronic media such as the Web can be stored in digital form, a new generation of software called "collaborative filters" or "communityware" (Contractor, O'Keefe, & Jones, 1997; Kautz, selman, & Shah, 1997) can be used to make visible the work communities' virtual social structure. One such tool, IKNOW (Inquiring Knowledge Networks On the Web; http://iknow.spcomm.uiue.edu/), has been designed by a team of UIUC researchers to assist individuals to search the arganization's databased to automatically answer questions about the organization's knowledge network, that is, "Who knows what?" as well as questions about the organization's cognitive knowledge networks, that is, "Who knows who know what?" within the organization. Unlike traditional web search engines that help an individual search for content on the web, tools such as IKNOW search for content and contacts (direct and indirect). In addition to being instantly beneficial to users, they also provide the researcher with an opportunity to unobtrusively and reliably study the influence of communityware on the co-evolution of knowledge networks.