Many of the social issues that live in real neighborhoods also reside on the Net Now, with a little help from software agents, people can be linked together to form a multitude of new colonies.s THE INTERNET CONTINUES TO GROW, SOCIAL ACTIVITIES THROUGH THE Net will become more and more common. Although several systems exist for supporting communities over the Net,' these systems have limitations that will pose problems in supporting forthcoming network communities. To resolve these problems, we are developing multiagent systems to assist in various social activities on network communities. We call these systems "socialware."There seems to be three major issues in the sup-services for communities can partially help, but port ot network communities. The first is how to more sophisticated systems are needed, bring people together, that is, how to link peopleThe second issue revolves around support for with others and with communities that share simi-smooth communications [4], including support for lar interests [1,7,8]. Search engines or directory visualizing and sharing common contexts,'as well as ,rii [iimuiiiiyWarc iwww.timimunilywarc.com) or Firefly (www.fircfly.net) tan \K viewed as typitaJ examples of community providers.I lit-UTm "conicxt" here includes suth aspects as the depth of knowledge of individuals, cheir attitudes toward the subjects, and mutual krwwkdgt .tnd manners (cihics) for I IK tummunity.
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