There are two urgent questions in academic research on Communities of Practice. The first is how to safeguard the sustainability of a Community of Practice (CoP). The second is how to motivate people in order to participate in and to contribute to such a community. In this paper we try to answer these questions by assuming networked individualism. This notion refers to the observation that indi...

3D visualization and virtual reality are increasingly important in geographic information science and play a wide role in applications of geographic information technology to the public including managers, policy analysts, geography teachers, children and many other niche groups . Up to now, Google Earth has been downloaded about 200 million times, and has widely been used in daily life by hund...

ABSTRACT: As the architecture/engineering/construction (AEC) industry proceeds in the direction of digitalisation, computer supported collaborative work (CSCW) enhanced by building information modelling (BIM) becomes realistic for multidisciplinary collaboration in construction. Networked virtual reality (VR) supported by BIM servers, though showing great potentials in connecting multidisciplin...

Situations of conflict giving rise to social dilemmas are widespread in society and game theory is one major way in which they can be investigated. Starting from the observation that individuals in society interact through networks of acquaintances, we model the co-evolution of the agents’ strategies and of the social network itself using two prototypical games, the Prisoner’s Dilemma and the S...

In the last few years, robot teleoperation systems have been improved with the advances in computer networks, virtual reality and graphical user interfaces. However, teleoperation applications for multiple and different robots in networked virtual environments are not available for all kind of users. This paper presents a collaborative multiuser system for multiple simultaneous robot teleoperat...

Scientific collaborations are getting more and more complex and transdisciplinary, as even demanded by many research funding sources. An example is the funding priority "Innovative capability in demographic change" initiated by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). Several collaborative projects investigate different parts of an overall research problem. These transdisci...

This article presents a discourse analysis method designed to study networked cognitive communication processes in knowledge communities, such as conceptual change, higher order learning and knowledge building. The method is grounded on genetic epistemology and integrates constructivist and socioconstructivist theoretical concepts. The sentence (understood as judgment) is chosen as the unit of ...

Системы транспортировки играют существенную роль в решении проблем, возникающих в случае природных катаклизмов, стихийных бедствий и катастроф. Такие современные технологии как, например, Интернет делают возможным создание интеллектуальных систем транспортировки для расширения их возможностей для своевременного реагирования на эти катастрофы. Эта статья представляет подход к реализации Интернет...