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Distributed manufacturing, where decentralized small, local sites are engaged in production, often supported by digital systems and networks, can be a powerful tool in humanitarian aid. Field Ready uses distributed manufacturing to produce essential non-food items locally where they are needed during humanitarian responses. Such supplies can be available to communities in need and to relief workers...
The main goal of the US Science Gateways Community Institute (SGCI) is to serve science gateways to achieve sustainability and growth. Science gateways allow science and engineering communities to access shared data, software, computing services, instruments, educational materials, and other resources specific to their disciplines. Thus, science gateways are a subgroup of scientific software and the...
The fast advancement of information and communication technologies (ICTs) globally has increased the obtainability, accessibility, and processing of knowledge sharing and management more than ever before in the world. This research takes the theory of social identity and social network as the main core to examine green fashion communities members how to use social media to knowledge sharing. Using...
The wireless ad hoc networks allow portable devices to exchange information by exploiting their locality as well as mobility. However, the information exchange in delay tolerant networks (DTNs) is more challenging due to (unpredictably) long disconnect among the devices. The information exchange complicates further due to human interactions. Nevertheless, we propose that it can be exploited to make...
Informal and formal communities play important roles in organisations including in higher education institutions. These communities provide platforms for knowledge sharing and creation among participated members and in turn lead to research innovation. In order to increase participation in research community, higher education institutions need to address important cultural elements that support their...
The current status of ITS deployment around Europe is characterized by lack of Standards for ITS implementation at EU level, limited cooperation among the various related IT Stakeholders and more importantly lack of wide awareness of the results and outcomes deriving from numerous and significant investments in ITS throughout Europe. This knowledge fragmentation can be reduced through the development...
Communities among users play the popular role for days of Social Network and the presence of groups of nodes that are high tightly connected with each other than with less links connected to nodes of different groups. So community detection algorithms are come to be the key to detect the user who are interact with each other in social media. However, there are still challenges in considering of some...
Obesity has been recognized to be among the principal causes of many chronic diseases such as diabetes, cholesterol, hypertension, and other cardiovascular diseases. Therefore, monitoring, controlling, and preventing obesity will mitigate the risks generated from the complications of these diseases. Comprehensive preventive measures are essential to control the spread of obesity, while healthcare...
The design of robust networked structures is of significance in reality, and the integrity of network connections has been greatly emphasized in previous studies. However, besides structural integrity, a system should also keep the functionality when suffering from attacks and failures, i.e. robust community structure. Focusing on enhancing community robustness on complex networks, in this paper,...
Volunteerism is a noble act and a powerful means of bridging gaps and bringing people together. Learning institutions are working hard to support the growth of the volunteer spirit among students. Unfortunately, current practices may not be as efficient in publicizing events and informing potential volunteers. Furthermore, some programs need funding to ensure viability. Our project proposes a more...
Community detection is a substantial technique to find out the relationship between nodes in complex networks. By understanding the behavior of elements in a community, one can predict the overall feature of the large scale social network. Detecting different communities in large scale network is a challenging task due to huge data size associated with such network. The main purpose of this paper...
Community research has been one of the classical and recent hot fields in sociology. With the increasing research findings, the themes and results of community and related branches have changed. This paper used China CNKI database as the data source, and 5856 articles of community research from Chinese Social Science Citation Index (CSSCI) which published between 2006 and 2015 years as data source...
Detecting communities from large social networks, which are graphical in structure is a critical issue. Recently, many attempts were made to provide feasible solutions and Density Based Graph Clustering (DENGRAPH) is one among them. However, DENGRAPH fails to predict the varied density clusters across the given network, which is significant for dynamic data sets like social networks. In this paper...
A social networking provides a interface where users can share, connect, interact and build social relations with other users. Communities in a social network are virtual groups where people with common interests and activities like to communicate. Increasing number of social network and users has proportionally increased demand of communities. Profile attribute based communities have a major drawback...
Tuckman's model identified forming, storming, norming and performing as four fundamental stages of group development; a new community like an extended group will not achieve optimal effectiveness unless it attains the stage of performing and interdependence [1]; therein lies one of the challenges of metropolitan housing schemes in developing countries [2]. Concerted efforts by governments of Lagos...
This article focuses on social collaboration in online communities and examines how users' altruism affects their knowledge sharing behavior. This article proposes an other-regarding conceptualization of altruism based on the Utility Interdependence Theory of Voluntarism. Awareness of the community's knowledge need is hypothesized to dampen one's free-riding tendency and strengthen knowledge sharing...
With the continuous improvement of information-based teaching conditions in colleges and universities, the ubiquitous blended learning environments consisting of campus wireless network coverage and intelligent mobile terminal access provides more collaborative dialogue chance for students who grew up in the influence of interactive technology. This study analyzes the unique advantage of blended learning...
A persona in a social network is defined as the person's activities and attributes in a social network as seen by others. And a community in a social network is defined as a group of users in that social network which share common interests and are most likely to interact with each other in the network. For community detection, a user's persona and its connections with the other users in a network,...
Borgs et al. [2016] investigated essential requirements for communities in preference networks. They defined six axioms on community functions, i.e., community detection rules. Though having elegant properties, the practicality of this axiomsystem is compromised by the intractability of checking twocritical axioms, so no nontrivial consistent community functionwas reported in [Borgs et al., 2016]...
An energy sharing framework of the smart community is proposed in this paper. The main objective of the framework application is decreasing power usage cost of the smart community by providing extra power-related services. A renewable power resource lease agreement between the community power supplier and the individual resource owner enables power sharing within the community. Each resource owner...
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