Title :
Modeling the Behavior of Lurkers in Online Communities Using Intentional Agents
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON
fDate :
Nov. 28 2006-Dec. 1 2006
Abstract :
Lurkers are members of an online community who read but seldom or never post messages. It has been reported that most members of online communities are lurkers. Understanding the reasons of lurking and the strategies of delurking can help the healthy development of online communities, which can potentially promote Internet commerce. This paper applies goal-oriented modeling on the behaviors of lurkers using the i* intentional modeling framework.
Keywords :
Internet; software agents; Internet commerce; goal-oriented modeling; intentional agents; intentional modeling framework; online communities; Business; Computational intelligence; Computer science; Discussion forums; Information security; Information systems; Internet; Power system modeling; Power system security; Privacy;
Conference_Titel :
Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation, 2006 and International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web Technologies and Internet Commerce, International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Sydney, NSW
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2731-0
DOI :
10.1109/CIMCA.2006.149
