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2011
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Social capital increases efficiency of collaboration among Wikipedia editors
In this study we measure the impact of pre-existing social capital on the efficiency of collaboration among Wikipedia editors. To construct a social network among Wikipedians we l...
Keiichi Nemoto, Peter A. Gloor, Rob Laubacher
ICRA
2009
IEEE
157views Robotics» more  ICRA 2009»
16 years 1 months ago
From pixels to objects: Enabling a spatial model for humanoid social robots
— This work adds the concept of object to an existent low-level attention system of the humanoid robot iCub. The objects are defined as clusters of SIFT visual features. When th...
Dario Figueira, Manuel Lopes, Rodrigo M. M. Ventur...
EPIA
2009
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Towards a Spatial Model for Humanoid Social Robots
This paper presents an approach to endow a humanoid robot with the capability of learning new objects and recognizing them in an unstructured environment. New objects are learnt, w...
Dario Figueira, Manuel Lopes, Rodrigo M. M. Ventur...
ECIS
2001
15 years 8 months ago
Why information systems plans do not get implemented: A case study of a UK hospital
The progression of implementation of an information systems strategy in a UK acute hospital is described. The case study describes the IS strategy, the conditions that led to its ...
Neil McBride, Ray Hackney
WWW
2008
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Yes, there is a correlation: - from social networks to personal behavior on the web
Characterizing the relationship that exists between a person's social group and his/her personal behavior has been a long standing goal of social network analysts. In this pa...
Parag Singla, Matthew Richardson