Web-based communities have become important places for people to seek and share expertise. We find that networks in these communities typically differ in their topology from other...
This paper formalizes the semantics of trust and studies the transitivity of trust. On the Web, people and software agents have to interact with “strangers”. This makes trust ...
The field of information retrieval has witnessed over 50 years of research on retrieval methods for metadata descriptions and controlled indexing languages, the prototypical exam...
The evolution of service-oriented architectures towards digital ecosystems comprehends a number of challenges. According to Papazoglou et al., one challenge is to develop services...
Gregor Scheithauer, Konrad Voigt, Veli Bicer, Matt...
In this paper we present a prototyped system to enable the virtual exploration of a complex virtual environment. Our approach exploits Quest3D as main rendering engine, its output...
Rosario De Chiara, Ugo Erra, Andrea Petta, Vittori...