Michele Tomaiuolo

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...

The availability and adoption of open protocols allow applications to integrate Web services offered by different providers. Moreover, simple services can be dynamically composed...

The availability and adoption of open protocols allow applications to integrate Web services offered by different providers. Moreover, simple services can be dynamically composed...

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 the last sixty years of research, several models have been proposed to explain (i) the formation and (ii) the evolution of networks. However, because of the specialization...

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

One of the main challenges of multi-agent systems is to become the main means to support legacy systems interoperability and to make the realization of scalable distributed...

As information technology and the Internet become more and more ubiquitous and pervasive in our daily lives, there is an essential need for a more thorough understanding of...