The collaborative organization of knowledge

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 51, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 68-73

  Spinellis, Diomidis ^a   Louridas, Panagiotis ^a,b  

^a ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

^b Greek Research and Technology Network

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MARKUP LANGUAGES;

EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENT; GROWTH MODELING; HTML PAGES; KEY TECHNOLOGIES; POWER LAWS; WEB-BASED COLLABORATIONS; WIKIPEDIA;

TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 49249112197     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1378704.1378720     Document Type: Article

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