GRID technology, emerging in the late nineties, has evolved from a metacomputing architecture towards a pervasive computation and information utility. However, the architectural de...
Originally developed for file sharing, P2P concepts are predestinated to realize information sharing in a more general way. Combined with the well known concept of loosely coupled...
Much of the support for communication across distributed communities has focused on meetings and intentional contact. However, most interactions within co-located groups occur whe...
Many information resources on the web are relevant primarily to limited geographical communities. For instance, web sites containing information on restaurants, theaters, and apar...
: Community web sites exhibit the property that multiple content providers exist. Of course, any portal is only as useful as the quality and amount of its content. Developing origi...