Internet communities

Law-Governed Internet Communities

We consider the problem of coordination and control of large heterogeneous groups of agents distributed over the Internet in the context of Law-Governed Interaction (LGI) [2, 5]. LGI is a mode of interaction that allows a group of distributed heterogeneous agents to interact with each other with confidence that an explicitly specified policy, called the law of the group, is complied with by eve...

Smart Communities Internet of Things

Today’s cities face many challenges due to population growth, aging population, pedestrian and vehicular traffic congestion, water usage increase, increased electricity demands, crumbling physical infrastructure of buildings, roads, water sewage, power grid, and declining health care services [13], [14]. Moreover, major trends indicate the global urbanization of society, and the associated pres...

Rationale for Internet-Mediated Communities

This article discusses the theoretical foundations of Internet-mediated communities (IMCs), i.e., groups of people who share interests and make use at some time of the same Internet tools (for instance, a web site-the special concern of this study) in order to exchange information about the shared interests. From November 1999 to February 2001 a rationale was developed and validated for such co...

Secure Internet Based Virtual Trading Communities

Today, we face a growing interest in distributed businessto-business applications using the Internet as communication media. However, the involved security threats are often neglected in the design of such systems. In this paper, we present our security architecture for an Internet based virtual trading community. Our solution has been designed for an heterogeneous, distributed workflow managem...

Invisible Connections Dance , choreography and internet communities