Social climates in community groups: Toward a taxonomy

Toward a Taxonomy of Copresence

The term "copresence" has recently been appearing in the presence literature with increasing frequency, but, like the concept of presence at its nascent stage, the meaning of this term is yet to be fully explicated. As it currently stands, "copresence" refers to (1) the sense of being together with other people in a remote environment (Muhlbach et al 1995; Lombard and Ditton 1997); and (2) the ...

A Community Based Social Recommender System for Individuals & Groups

Social networks provide rich new types of data that promise to personalize and improve Recommender Systems. One promising type of data extracted from social networks is relationships. While existing recommenders have capitalized on the use of explicit relationship data such as friendships, the use of implicit relationship data (that gathered from less obvious connections such as co-occurrence) ...

Society in Hand: Toward Community Service through Social Network

Technology plays a significant role in the development of society. Social Networking Sites (SNS) have not only been used to cover the needs of entertainment, finding friends or family but also have been extended to cover other issues such as social and community services. This paper explores usefulness of using social network in the context of community and social services. By analyzing the lin...

Toward a Taxonomy of Time-Constrained Applications

We are developing a taxonomy for classifying applications based on their time constraints. The taxonomy is based on three components that capture the key characteristics between different classes of applications: the process’s execution behavior, the timing constraints it requests, and the level of guarantee it is willing to accept from the system. The taxonomy is useful for two reasons: it pro...

Toward a taxonomy of performance metrics