Information and Knowledge Management using ArcGIS ModelBuilder

Cuneyt Gurcan Akcora, Barbara Carminati and Elena Ferrari
as the application has not been running long enough to acquire too many users. From the application,
a view of member generated content is given in Figure 2(a).
(a) Shared content
(b) Filtering members
Figure 2: Views from the application
Filtering has been implemented in fine granularity by considering all Facebook profile items. Figure
2(b) shows a search interface from the application.
Privacy of user profile items can be adjusted by changing settings in the application. Figure 3 shows
the privacy settings in our application. Please note that, the data presented in the figure is received
from Facebook automatically, and it is not user entered. However, the user can add more data or
remove some parts of it.
Figure 3: Settings for profile privacy
8. Conclusions
In this paper we proposed a solution that can help virtual organizations to benefit from existing social
networks functionalities. We gave requirements and characteristics of our solution, and presented a
proof of concept Facebook application. In the future, we plan to observe how such a solution
increases efficiency in management and maintenance of VHOs for different application domains.
Moreover, we plan to extend the set of supported functions.
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