Chidamber and Kemerer first defined a cohesion measure for object-oriented software – the Lack of Cohesion in Methods (LCOM) metric. One of the critique of the LCOM metric is that the metric does not yield normalized or standardized values, and as such, the metric does not seem appealing to a section of the software engineering community. This paper presents an approach for normalizing the LCOM...

Community detection is one of the most investigated problems in the field of complex networks. Although several methods were proposed, there is still no precise definition of communities. As a step towards a definition, I highlight two necessary properties of communities, separation and internal cohesion, the latter being a new concept. I propose a local method of community detection based on t...

The primary aims of this paper are to review the concept of social capital and related constructs and to provide a brief guide to their operationalization and measurement. We focus on four existing constructs: collective efficacy, psychological sense of community, neighborhood cohesion and community competence. Each of these constructs taps into slightly different, yet overlapping, aspects of s...

This article builds upon communication infrastructure theory and investigates how practices on online neighborhood networks (ONNs) relate to the social cohesion of communities. Specifically, we study hyperlocal media platform Hoplr, which provides ad-free ONNs in neighbors can communicate with one another. Local governments subscribe Hoplr their residents engage them for community public partic...