| S. Wasserman and J. Galaskiewicz. Advances in Social Network Analysis. Sage Publications, October 1994. |
....mechanism that require involving actions on the part of the human user or the corresponding agent. This approach has some drawbacks that we try to overcome in this paper by means of an alternative approach based on the analysis of the location of each user within his community s social network [26]. In section two, the characteristics of multi agent systems for community support are presented together with currently used mechanisms for trust and reputation maintenance. A characterization of social networks is given in section three that also analyzes their properties. Section four describes ....
....See [21] for a general discussion of trust and reputation in MAS and [29] for a similar discussion in a more restricted type of community dealing with e commerce. We propose a system that tackles these problems by using the social network of the community. 2. 1 Social Networks A social network [26] is a representation of the relationships existing within a community. Even within the same community several types of social network can be built depending on the social relationship taken into account: kinship, acquaintanceship, friendship, mutual support, cooperation, and similarity are typical ....
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Wasserman, S. and Glaskiewics, J. Advances in Social Networks Analysis. Sage Publications, 1994.
....of the ACM, vol. 40 no. 3, March, 1997. Numerous studies have shown that one of the most the most effective channels for dissemination of information and expertise within an organization is its informal network of collaborators, colleagues, and friends (Granovetter 1973; Kraut 1990; Wasserman and Galaskiewicz 1994). Indeed, the social network 1 is as least as important as the official organizational structure for tasks ranging from immediate, local problem solving (for example, fixing a piece of equipment) to primary work functions, such as creating project teams. Part of the success of social networks ....
Wasserman, S. and Galaskiewicz, J., Eds. Advances in Social Network Analysis. Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, Calf., 1994.
....process, particularly if a person is not wellconnected himself. We have created the ReferralWeb system (Kautz, Selman, and Shah 1997) as a tool to aid in finding experts on arbitrary topics. The set of all possible referral chains in a community is called a social network (Milgram 1967, Wasserman and Galaskiewicz 1994). ReferralWeb lets a user visualize and search such a social network. How can one generate a social network based on a community of interest Systems such as Firefly (http: www.firefly.net) and 6DOS (http: www.qand a.com ) require everyone to explicitly register with the system and to provide ....
Wasserman, S. and Galaskiewicz, J., Eds. (1994). Advances in Social Network Analysis. Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA, 1994.
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Wasserman, S. and Galaskiewicz, J., Eds. Advances in Social Network Analysis. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1994.
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