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Leveraging E-Identities: The Impact of Percieved Diversity on Team Social Integration and Performance
(AIS, 2008-01-01)
Virtual teams (VTs) are increasingly being employed by organizations, presenting managers and researchers with challenges that collocated teams do not face. VTs are likely to be diverse and lack opportunities to readily ...
Knowledge sharing and Yahoo Answers: Everyone knows something
(ACM, 2008-04)
Yahoo Answers (YA) is a large and diverse question-answer
forum, acting not only as a medium for sharing technical
knowledge, but as a place where one can seek advice, gather
opinions, and satisfy one's curiosity about ...
Developing a unifying framework of credibility assessment: Concept, heuristics, and interaction in context.
(Elsevier, 2008)
This article presents a unifying framework of credibility assessment in which credibility is characterized across a variety
of media and resources with respect to diverse information seeking goals and tasks. The initial ...
Recordkeeping Metadata. Presenting the Results of a Working Meeting
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2001-09)
altVerto: using intervention and community to promote alternative transportation
(ACM, 2007)
We seek to motivate drivers who regularly use web-based local and mapping services and have access to viable alternative transit methods — such as public transportation, carpooling, walking or bicycling — to use these ...
Rational Communication in Multi-Agent Environments
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2001-09)
We address the issue of rational communicative behavior among autonomous self-interested agents that have to make decisions as to what to communicate, to whom, and how. Following decision theory, we postulate that a rational ...
A Social Mechanism for Supporting Home Computer Security
(WISE, 2008-12-13)
Hackers have learned to leverage the enormous number
of poorly protected home computers by turning them into
a large distributed system (known as a botnet), making
home computers an important frontier for security ...
Social Loafing in Brainstorming CMC Teams: The Role of Moral Disengagement
(IEEE, 2009-01)
Social loafing, i.e. the tendency of some individuals to not exert as much effort in team settings as when they are working alone, has been identified as a major source of productivity loss in brainstorming teams. Studies ...
Probabilistic question answering on the Web
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2005-04)
Web-based search engines such as Google and NorthernLight return documents that are relevant to a user query, not answers to user questions. We have developed an architecture that augments existing search engines so that ...
Preservation research and sustainable digital libraries
(Springer-Verlag, 2005-08)
The National Science Foundation and DELOS , the European Commission sponsored Network for Digital Libraries, supported a working group to define a research agenda for digital archiving and preservation (DAP-WG) within the ...