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Title:
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TOWARDS A REFERENCE ARCHITECTURE MODEL FOR VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES |
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Author(s):
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Richard Braun, Werner Esswein |
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ISBN:
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978-972-8939-40-3 |
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Editors:
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Piet Kommers, Nik Bessis and Pedro Isaías |
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Year:
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2011 |
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Edition:
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Single |
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Keywords:
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Virtual Communities, Reference Model, Architecture Model, Model-based Management, Social Media |
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Type:
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Full Paper |
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First Page:
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48 |
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Last Page:
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56 |
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Language:
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English |
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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Virtual communities become more and more interesting for different purposes of companies because of their increasing usage and acceptance in the general public. However there is a deficiency regarding the understanding of typical elements and architectures of virtual communities. This hampers the systematic and purposeful usage and management of virtual communities by companies. This motivates a model-based approach for describing the typical conceptual architecture of virtual communities. Based on an extensive literature analysis and an empirical analysis of existing virtual communities a multidimensional reference model was constructed by using the UML. The reference architecture model integrates sociological, technical and socio-technical layers and elements of virtual communities and thus provides a holistic overview that can be used in systems engineering, IT business alignment and (model-based) management overall. The construction process included the consolidation and integration of typologies. |
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