Spawn: A Distributed Computational Economy
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Adaptive learning systems in the World Wide Web
UM '99 Proceedings of the seventh international conference on User modeling
Growth and maturity of intelligent tutoring systems: a status report
Smart machines in education
ELM-ART: An Intelligent Tutoring System on World Wide Web
ITS '96 Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems
Mariposa: a wide-area distributed database system
The VLDB Journal — The International Journal on Very Large Data Bases
Virtual knowledge service market-For effective knowledge flow within knowledge grid
Journal of Systems and Software
Market-Based Adaptive Discussion Forums
Advanced Internet Based Systems and Applications
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Discussion forums are one of the simplest, while successful, Internet-based systems to promote the spread of knowledge. Unfortunately, they sometimes lack appropriate incentives to encourage users participation. In this paper we discuss a simple market-oriented mechanism to promote the knowledge exchange activity in discussion forums. The proposed solution departs from other market-oriented approaches since the scarce resource we deal with, the effort to create information, has important peculiarities which must be taken into account. In addition to the basic framework, we have also developed a method to dynamically improve the performance of the system. This method uses statistics about users behavior in order to minimize the reponse time in which questions are satisfactorily answered.