One of the core goals of the Semantic Web is to store data in distributed locations, and use ontologies and reasoning to aggregate it. Social networking is a large movement on the web, and social networking data using the Friend of a Friend (FOAF) vocabulary makes up a significant portion of all data on the Semantic Web. Many traditional web-based social networks share their members’ informatio...

This research adopts a brand relationship perspective to investigate how users of a social network site (e.g., Facebook and Twitter) perceive the quality of their relationship with those sites and their intention to continue to use them, as well as the intention to continue using the hosted brands that they “follow” through the social network site. In addition, the role of matching a user’s per...

This paper addresses two questions. Firstly, how is it possible for an application to become aware of network conditions and secondly, given this awareness, how can a system be designed that will allow application level adaptation? A framework enabling these adaptations, consisting of three components, is proposed: A network monitor makes available to applications measurements of the Quality of...

In the advent of the Internet, web-mediated social networking has become of great influence to Filipinos. Networking sites such as Friendster, YouTube, FaceBook and MySpace are among the most well known sites on the Internet. These sites provide a wide range of services to users from different parts of the world, such as connecting and finding people, as well as, sharing and organizing contents...

This paper deals with the sign up issue in social networks populated with Web services. These social networks can be used for example, to ease the discovery of Web services. Based on Web services’ functionalities three social networks are built: competition, substitution, and collaboration. In competition and substitution social networks, Web services offer homogeneous functionalities. In the c...

This document is submitted as a reference document for the discussion under Session 2A "Better System Management" of the Sofia ministerial meeting on 30-31 May 2007. This document is only available on the ECMT website and will not be distributed in Sofia.

We make a case for treating a Web site as a social actor and propose para-social presence as a central construct to measure the structure of the relationship that evolves between a web site and its visitors. Parasocial presence (PSP) captures the underlying psychological cues that measure the level and extent of interaction among participating social entities (in an online shopping context in t...

Are businesses more likely or less likely to enter a two-sided market crowded with competitors? On the one hand, a strong rival presence may dissipate payoff (a “congestion effect”). On the other hand, rivalry may signal high demand (an “inference effect”). To distinguish between these two effects, we use field experiment data from a B2B website that brings together buyers and sellers of used e...

Advertisements play a very important role in making educational institutions reach students belonging to rural and urban areas. The purpose of this paper is to find the impact of various types of advertisements on the area wise admission of students to Institutions, both in rural and urban areas of Bangalore. The objective is also to study, among the types, which has sustained or temporary infl...