Community detection is an unsupervised learning task that discovers groups such that group members share more similarities or interact more frequently among themselves than with people outside groups. In social media, link information can reveal heterogeneous relationships of various strengths, but often can be noisy. Since different sources of data in social media can provide complementary inf...

Authentic communities whether academic, political, philosophic, social, commercial, or virtual demonstrate NURTURE, a goodness of ‘fit’ between the goals of individual members and the community as a whole. Further, community efforts presume that the synergy of shared interests will exceed the product of individual ventures. Shared interest has traditionally been implicit, arising from historic ...

OBJECTIVE To obtain information from the members of the boards of devolved health care authorities on their motivations, attitudes and approaches, to evaluate their relative orientations to the expectations of provincial governments, local providers and community members, and to evaluate the influence of members' being employees in health care or social services and being willing to stand for e...

Abstract Locally targeted programs may exploit available information transmitted through local networks to improve the selection of beneficiaries, but effective use this is not granted when beneficiaries entails balancing multiple targeting criteria that are costly verify. This paper analyzes how committees balance issues neediness, productivity, risk, and favoritism allocate subsidized loans T...

Since its inception, the Internet has served as a virtual meeting place for people sharing common interests. These electronically supported interest groups are nowadays called Virtual Communities. Networked computers are used to support direct communication and indirect information exchange, and to provide awareness and matchmaking services. The use of member profiles adds a new dimension to th...

A virtual community (VC) of committed members is of great strategic value to online firms and vendors owing to its ability to attract and retain members. However, online firms and vendors find it difficult to instill commitment among their VC members. Therefore, this study examines the mechanism of customer commitment formation in a relationship-cum-interest based VC. By understanding the mecha...

A virtual community (VC) of committed members is of great strategic value to online firms and vendors owing to its ability to attract and retain members. However, online firms and vendors find it difficult to instill commitment among their VC members. Therefore, this study examines the mechanism of customer commitment formation in a relationship-cum-interest based VC. By understanding the mecha...

Abstract International agencies and non-governmental organisations classify Quranic schoolboys who beg on behalf of their teachers as victims child trafficking. The aim here is to understand why no Bissau-Guinean Fula religious leader, referred cerno , has been sentenced prison, despite accusations findings show that community members hold leaders in high esteem for role within the spiritual, e...