Mr. Jack Pendray is Executive in Residence and Visiting Professor of Management at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia. From 1993-96, Jack was President of the International Group of Cincinnati Bell Information Systems Inc., Cincinnati OH, where he was responsible for all non-North...

Purpose – Social media platforms allow near‐unfettered creation and exchange of user generated content (UGC). Drawing from network science, the purpose of this paper is to examine whether high and low quality UGC differ in their connectivity structures in Wikipedia (which consists of...

Distributed processing has been motivated by many objectives. Among these are a desire to share resources, reduce communications costs (as compared to a centralized processing scheme), increase performance and decrease response time by partitioning tasks and achieve higher system availability...