A Community Profile is a combined picture of the members data in the community and the process of creating it is called community profiling. It uses a variety of different techniques to build up a picture of the community from a number of different perspectives. The members in the Community can interact with other members in the same community using the community profile. The communities are cr...

Online communities involve lots of interactions among members. Those interactions are usually shown as “friend links” between community members, and an online community could be seen as a network of members. The structures and properties of community network formed are important to the information diffusion in communities. Hence, the network formation mechanisms attract great interest in recent...

Understanding cultural phenomena on Social Networks (SNs) and exploiting the implicit knowledge about their members is attracting the interest of different research communities both from the academic and the business side. The community of complexity science is devoting significant efforts to define laws, models, and theories, which, based on acquired knowledge, are able to predict future obser...

In this paper, we built an agent-based model to integrate and synthesize social science theories to inform online community design. As an example, we use the model to examine how various styles of moderating online conversations affect community performance. We compared three styles of moderation – no moderation, in which all members are exposed to all messages; community-level moderation, in w...

─ The Internet networking is getting more popular in Virtual community which must have a strong security feature to protect member’s privacy and message integrity. Without using a strong security feature in virtual community, virtual community will not accomplish the goal to communicate with members in developing common interests. However, all systems can be hacked, and there are no exceptions ...

“. . . Community lies at the heart of public health . . . interventions work best when they are rooted in the values, knowledge, expertise, and interests of the community itself . . . health encompasses the physical, mental, spiritual, environmental and economic well-being of a community and its members. We recognize the power of equal partnerships including community-based organizations, acade...

Due to the proliferation of computer networks the electronic support of geographically distributed groups has become increasingly important. With respect to groups we can distinguish between teams and communities. In general, team members know each other and collaborate to achieve a common goal while community members have just common interests or preferences. Often there is no personal contact...

This paper presents ACIS, an Autonomous Community Information System. ACIS is a proposition made to meet the rapidly changing users’ requirements and cope with the extreme dynamism in current information services. ACIS is a decentralized bilateral-hierarchy architecture formed by a community of individual end-users (community members) having the same interests and demands at specified time and ...

Autonomous Community Information System (ACIS) is a proposition made to contend with the extreme dynamism in the large-scale information system. ACIS is a decentralized bilateral-hierarchy architecture that forms a community of individual end-users (community members) having the same interests and demands in somewhere, at specified time. It allows the community members to mutually cooperate and...