Agostino Poggi

Social networking systems can be considered one of the most important social phenomena because they succeeded in involving billions of people all around the world and in...

Participation in social networks has long been studied as a social phenomenon according to different theories. In particular, the notion of social capital highlights a...

The concept of computational thinking has been discussed for several decades and in recent years has been brought to the attention of the scientific community by Jeanette Wing....

The current approach to build social networking systems is to create huge centralized systems owned by a single company. However, such strategy has many drawbacks, e.g., lack of...

Social networking sites have deeply changed the face of the web in the last years. Although the current approach to build social networking systems is to create huge centralized...

Social networking systems can be considered one of the most important social phenomena because they succeeded in involving billions of people all around the world and in...

Social networking systems are usually huge centralized systems owned by a single company. However, this solution has many drawbacks (e.g., lack of privacy, lack of anonymity...

The concept of Computational Thinking has been discussed for several decades and in recent years has been brought to the attention of the scientific community by Jeanette Wing....

Social networking sites have deeply changed the face of the web in the last years. Although the current approach to build social networking systems is to create huge centralized...

Social web sites are used daily by many millions of users. They have attracted users with very weak interest in technology, including absolute neophytes of computers in general....

Social networking systems blur the distinction between the private and working spheres, and users are known to use such systems both at home and at the work place, both...

Social networking systems blur the distinction between the private and working spheres, and users are known to use such systems both at home and at the work place, both...

This chapter has the goal of showing how multi-agent systems can be a suitable means for supporting the development and the composition of services in dynamic and complex...

In this chapter, the authors describe the relationships between multi-agent systems, social networks, and the Semantic Web within collaborative work; they also review how the...

Multi-agent systems have been importantly contributing to the development of the theory and the practice of complex distributed systems and, in particular, they have shown their...

Current technological advances and the increasing diffusion of its use for scientific, financial and social activities, make Internet the de facto platform for providing...

Online games have grown during recent years into a popular entertainment form with a wide variety of games and player communities spread across the world. Such games have, as the...

Multi-agent systems have been importantly contributing to the development of the theory and the practice of complex distributed systems and, in particular, they have shown their...

The vision which is making its way in information technology is to encapsulate organizations’ functionalities within appropriate interfaces and advertise them as one or more Web...