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There are several challenges for enabling an Internet that is universally available and accessible to all. These challenges can be overcome by innovations in technology, economics and regulation/policy. Over the last few years the smart data pricing community have proposed several innovative pricing solutions which have the potential for reducing the cost of Internet access. However, it is imperative...
Nowadays, a novel BitTorrent technology, Private Tracker, has received extensive attentions in academia. However, most researches work on measuring, analyzing and modeling of Private Trackers towards to Internet or networks. Few work aims at utilizing the PTs model to real life. In this paper, we abstract the idea of PTs model to a universal trade exchange mechanism creatively, and apply it to real-world...
This paper examines the use of social learning platforms in conjunction with the emergent pedagogy of the ‘flipped classroom’. In particular the attributes of the social learning platform “Edmodo” is considered alongside the changes in the way in which online learning environments are being implemented, especially within British education. Some observations are made regarding the use and usefulness...
This article presents the results of a design workshop that developed scenarios of learning in an imaginary "smart city": Villard-de-Lans (Vercors, French Alps) by exploring suitable methodological approaches to the Smart City Learning Design. The aim of this case study was to propose "glocal" solutions intended to balance the global trends and the expectations of the community...
We present the design and evaluation of ITMgen, a tool for generating synthetic but representative Interdomain Traffic Matrices (ITMs). ITMgen is motivated by the observation that gravity-based models do not reflect application level or regional characteristics of Internet traffic. ITMgen works at the level of connections, taking into account the relative sizes of ASes, their popularity with respect...
This positional paper gives an overview of some critical issues concerning collective awareness platforms. It shows how collective awareness could reconcile asymmetric and conflicting relationships to pursue the improvement of structures within society. It also shows the opportunity for public administrations and policy makers to create conditions for collective participation. Collective intelligence...
This position paper introduces INSPECTOR a platform of integrated service for the creation of future and emerging management of research communities based on distributed system models, methods, techniques and algorithms having interaction support with the Internet. The distributed environment is required in both dimensions: storage and computation. The storage is the base for data aggregation and...
Online communities provide Internet users with means to overcome some information barriers and constraints, such as the difficulty to gather independent information about products and firms. Product review communities allow customers to share their opinions and emotions after the purchase of a product. We introduce a new dataset of product reviews from Amazon.com, with emotional information extracted...
Developing high quality education has been as a basic state policy, and teacher education is also been placed on the key and prior position to carry out in many countries. Conducting effective teacher education becomes a main way to improve the level of teachers' specialization and classroom teaching quality. The development of modern information technology perfects the construction of web-based teacher...
The concept of “media biotope” is discussed from the viewpoint of system informatics. Media biotope is a concept of communication mediums in which the structures are discussed as an analogy of a biotope of the nature world. In this scheme, communities created with local media that are connected with and mutually influence each other. First of all, Shannon and Weaver's model for communication media...
This paper discusses the necessity of the construction of auto parts trading platform based on buyer members from the perspective of theory and practical needs, and builds a B2B auto parts services trading platform based on buyer members on this basis, and breaks through the B2B e-commerce model that always centers on the sellers in auto parts market. At the same time, the platform provides the function...
The vast quantity of data contributed and consumed via the Internet provides an environment where Collective Intelligence (CI) can emerge. This article considers CI in relation to the Peer-to-Peer (P2P) paradigm, an environment that has the necessary conditions for the generation of large data sets through frequent peer interactions. We then examine the characteristics of agency and relate agent computing...
The purpose of this paper is to add new insights into the customer satisfaction judgment in the context of virtual internet community. Consumers' social needs such as respect, participation and communication are studied to be the main motivations of consumers to join the virtual internet communities. This research then examines how consumers' social needs affect their satisfaction, proposing the hypotheses...
Because all contents in online forums are provided by users, it's important to reward the contributive users, and the rewards should be proportional to the contributions. So the determination of user contributions is needed in online forums. On the other hand, some users may do some fake contributions for more reward. In this paper, we analyzed possible frauds in online forum, examined the features...
This paper addresses the topic of the Service Creation Environment (SCE) within a Telco environment and what is required for a dynamic, simple and easy to use Telco 2.0 developer community, which will enables developers to easily develop new applications such as blended or mash-up type services using exposed telecom assets through open operator APIs.
With the maturity of Web2.0, information exchange and information sharing have reached an unprecedented breadth and depth, which also provide a good condition for the spreading of false information in virtual communities. Through the collection and analysis of a large number of comments of virtual communities, this paper presents a solution of credibility analysis of comments of virtual community...
Online work projects, from open source to wikipedia, have emerged as an important phenomenon. These communities offer exciting opportunities to investigate social processes because they leave traces of their activity over time. We argue that the rapid visibility of others' work afforded by the information systems used by these projects reaches out and attracts the attention of others who are peripherally...
The most important feature of Internet forums is their social aspect. Many forums are active for a long period of time and attract a group of dedicated users, who build a tight social community around a forum. With great abundance of forums devoted to every possible aspect of human activity, such as politics, religion, sports, technology, entertainment, economy, fashion, and many more, users are able...
The digital age has brought about new platforms for collaboration which have provided interesting and effective ways of enabling people to engage in a wide variety of socially-driven activities. One only needs to observe the many free/libre open source software projects on the web, where millions of connected individuals actively participate in the development and deployment of a wide range of software...
With the development of services computing technology, more and more voluntary services have been available on the Internet. When using voluntary services, users tend to obtain higher QoS (e.g., get more computational resources to improve throughput of the services) than they actually need because there is no cost. To control QoS of the voluntary services appropriately, it is necessary to design resource...
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