Community Computing and Support Systems: Social Interaction in Networked Communities

by Toru Ishida (Editor)

Overview.- Towards Computation over Communities.- Methodology for Large Scale Experimentation A Discussion Report.- Models and Concepts.- Complexity and Adaptation in Community Information Implications for Design.- How TRURL Evolves Multiagent Worlds for Social Interaction Analysis.- Agent Based Approach for Social Complex Systems - Management of Constructed Social World.- Awareness - The Common Link Between Groupware and Community Support Systems.- Social Psychological and Artistic Aspects of the Human Interface.- Methodologies for Large Scale Trials.- Demographics and Sociographics of the Digital City.- Groupware, Community, and the Collaborative Framework of EdNA (Education Network Australia).- Building a Context-Aware Mobile Assistant for Exhibition Tours.- Managing Large Scale On-line Secrets of the Open Meeting.- Social Pattern Development A Case Study in a Regional Community Network.- Sharing Knowledge and Preference in Communities.- A System for Supporting Community Knowledge Evolution.- A Tool to Assist and Study the Creation, Maintenance, and Dissolution of Knowledge Networks.- Building Agent Community toward Business Knowledge Base Generation.- Building Information Infrastructures for Social Worlds - The Role of Classifications and Standards.- Supporting Social Interaction in Communities.- Interactional Resources for the Support of Collaborative Common Problems in the Design of Technologies to Support Groups and Communities.- Interactive Consultation System with Asymmetrical Communication between People in Different Electronic Communities.- Communities through Using History for Social Navigation.- Reflections of Communities in Virtual The Mirror.- Awareness Support for Real-World Encounter.- Agent Technologies in Communities.- Supporting Network Communities with Multiagent Systems.- Agent Augmented Human-to-Human and Human-to-Environment Interactions Enhanced by Situation-Aware Personalized Mobile Agents.- Community Formation via a Distributed, Privacy-Protecting Matchmaking System.- Personalizing Agents in Social Contexts.

404 pages, Paperback

First published December 15, 1998