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CSCW
2002
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
NetWORKers and their Activity in Intensional Networks
Through ethnographic research, we document the rise of personal social networks in the workplace, which we call intensional networks. Paradoxically, we find that the most fundament...
Bonnie A. Nardi, Steve Whittaker, Heinrich Schwarz
ATAL
2006
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Structural evaluation of agent organizations
A multi-agent system can be analyzed and specified as an organization consisting of roles and their relations. The performance of an organization depends on many factors among whi...
Davide Grossi, Frank Dignum, Virginia Dignum, Mehd...
WWW
2009
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Network analysis of collaboration structure in Wikipedia
In this paper we give models and algorithms to describe and analyze the collaboration among authors of Wikipedia from a network analytical perspective. The edit network encodes wh...
Denise van Raaij, Jürgen Lerner, Patrick Keni...
WWW
2006
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Exploring social annotations for the semantic web
In order to obtain a machine understandable semantics for web resources, research on the Semantic Web tries to annotate web resources with concepts and relations from explicitly d...
Xian Wu, Lei Zhang, Yong Yu
AAAI
2010
15 years 8 months ago
Coalition Structure Generation based on Distributed Constraint Optimization
Forming effective coalitions is a major research challenge in AI and multi-agent systems (MAS). Coalition Structure Generation (CSG) involves partitioning a set of agents into coa...
Suguru Ueda, Atsushi Iwasaki, Makoto Yokoo, Marius...