M. Garofalakis, Yahoo! Research Community Systems Group, "Community Systems Research at Yahoo!", ACM SIGMOD Record, vol. 36, no. 3, pp. 47-54, Sept. 2007. doi: 10.1145/1324185.1324195
https://doi.org/10.1145/1324185.1324195
The web and its continued evolution present unprecedentedopportunities for database researchers and practitioners todeliver unique user experiences that are not possible traditionally,e.g., mass collaborations through (automatically)established online communities and exploration of large scalestructured information. Along with these opportunities, however,come significant challenges. The challenges are twofold:systems, the infrastructures that allow us to deliver informationat scale; and community, the applications that deliverthe next generation of web experiences centered aroundpeople and social networks. In this paper, we describe theongoing research efforts within the Community Systems grouphere at Yahoo! Research to address these challenges.