A formal design of web community interactivity

Authors:
Chima Adiele
Affiliations:
University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
Venue:
APWeb/WAIM'07 Proceedings of the joint 9th Asia-Pacific web and 8th international conference on web-age information management conference on Advances in data and web management
Year:
2007

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Abstract

Web Communities (WCs) are emerging as business enablers in the electronic marketplace. As the size of the community becomes increasingly large, there is a tendency for some members of the community to use resources provided by the community without necessarily making any contribution. It is, therefore, necessary to determine members' contributions towards sustaining the community. In this paper, we present a formal framework to dynamically measure the interactivity of members, and indeed the interactivity level of the community. This formal foundation is necessary to eliminate ad hoc approaches that characterize existing solutions, and provide a sound foundation for this new research area. We design an efficient interactivity algorithm, and also implement a prototype of the system.