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Creating a Science of Web.
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In this paper, the authors argue that the Web has been transformational and we need to understand it, we need anticipate future developments and identify opportunities and threats, and that we need a new discipline: Web Science.Abstract:
Our motivation is that the Web has been transformational and we need to understand it, we need to anticipate future developments and identify opportunities and threats. We need a new discipline: Web Scienceread more
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What is Web 2.0? Ideas, technologies and implications for education
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the web is entering a "second phase" -a new, "improved" Web version 2.0. But how justified is this perception?
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A survey of trust in computer science and the Semantic Web
Donovan Artz,Yolanda Gil +1 more
TL;DR: This paper gives an overview of existing trust research in computer science and the Semantic Web.
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Analyzing and Modeling Real-World Phenomena with Complex Networks: A Survey of Applications
Luciano da Fontoura Costa,Osvaldo N. Oliveira,Gonzalo Travieso,Francisco A. Rodrigues,Paulino Ribeiro Villas Boas,Lucas Antiqueira,Matheus P. Viana,Luis E. C. Rocha +7 more
TL;DR: A diversity of phenomena are surveyed, which may be classified into no less than 11 areas, providing a clear indication of the impact of the field of complex networks.
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Social Computing: From Social Informatics to Social Intelligence
TL;DR: The move from social informatics to social intelligence is achieved by modeling and analyzing social behavior, by capturing human social dynamics, and by creating artificial social agents and generating and managing actionable social knowledge.
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Web science: an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the web
TL;DR: The Web must be studied as an entity in its own right to ensure it keeps flourishing and prevent unanticipated social effects.
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Exploring complex networks
TL;DR: This work aims to understand how an enormous network of interacting dynamical systems — be they neurons, power stations or lasers — will behave collectively, given their individual dynamics and coupling architecture.
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Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace
TL;DR: Harvard Professor Lawrence Lessig shows how code can make a domain, site, or network free or restrictive; how technological architectures influence people's behavior and the values they adopt; and how changes in code can have damaging consequences for individual freedoms.
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Navigation in a small world
TL;DR: The small-world phenomenon was first investigated as a question in sociology and is a feature of a range of networks arising in nature and technology and is investigated by modelling how individuals can find short chains in a large social network.
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Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace
TL;DR: The Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace by Lawrence Lessig as discussed by the authors is perhaps the most original book yet written about cyberspace law, focusing on the relationship between law, economic markets, norms, and an intriguing category he calls "architecture".