Autonomous Decentralized Community Information System (ADCS) is a proposition made to meet the rapidly changing users’ requirements and cope with the extreme dynamism in current information services. ADCS is a decentralized architecture that forms a community of individual end-users (community members) having the same interests and demands in specified time and location. It allows those members...

This paper describes functionality and architectural issues in the design of a web-based virtual community. This virtual community aims to meet the requirements of a virtual collaboration system with both autonomous and collaborative e-learning services, by supporting communities whose members interact and form groups based on their common interests.

BACKGROUND Community advisory boards (CAB) are proposed as one mechanism to carry out successful community based participatory research (CBPR), but the presence of CABs may be insufficient to optimize academic-community partnerships. METHODS We conducted semi-structured interviews with minority members of a CAB partnered with a HIV/AIDS research center and identified three themes. RESULTS F...

This paper presents the ENISA Awareness Raising Community that aims at sharing and analysing information security good practices across Europe. The Community builds on a diverse range of skills and knowledge of ICTs, and differing interests and levels of expertise and priorities. Shared awareness practices have been deemed critical to the success of the Community. Leveraging upon the Community ...

With the rapid development and advancement of virtual communities and collaboration, it raises both opportunities and challenges for the online community members. Professional online communities have formed and flourished rapidly with the proliferation of network access in the past two decades. This study aims to explore the activeness of professional online community members by proposing a fra...

This study focuses on an on-line community, built on the base of sharing the same scientific interest in a particular field among its members. The unit of analysis is the communication process as it emerges from an electronic mailing list, which represents a forum of discussions and announcements related to the topic of the list. The network analysis and content analysis delineate the methodolo...

The efficient identification of communities with common interests is a key consideration in applying targeted advertising and viral marketing to online social networking sites. Existing methods involve large scale community detection on the entire social network before determining the interests of individuals within these communities. This approach is both computationally intensive and may resu...