This paper makes a case for conviviality as a currency for frontier Africans. It argues that
incompleteness is the normal order of things, and that conviviality invites us to celebrate and …

Purpose Over the coming decades, the widespread application of social distancing creates
challenges for the urban planning and design profession. This article aims to address the …

Abstract The Semantic Web envisions a Web where information is accessible and
processable by computers as well as humans. Ontologies are the cornerstones for realizing …

Grewal, Guha and Becker (2024) provide an insightful examination of the role of artificial
intelligence (AI) in the field of marketing as well as its promises and perils for both …

I started the research described in this book with the attractive and inspiring idea of Artificial
Companions that will be our helpers, our little artificial friends. They will know us and our …

This paper proposes a set of sensitizing concepts for the evolution of technologies
supporting both online and hybrid communities. These concepts regard the affordances that …

A decade-long conscious effort by the Semantic Web community has resulted in the
formation of a decentralized knowledge platform which enables data interoperability at a …

Today, privacy is a key concept. It is also one which is rapidly evolving with technological
advances, and there is no consensus on a single definition for it. In fact, the concept of …

When I accepted the invitation to deliver a keynote address on conviviality and African
potentials in Yaounde in December 2014, I was excited by the prospect of collaborative …

While conviviality has simultaneously been defined in the literature as individual freedom
realised in personal interdependence, rational and cooperative behaviour and normative …