Modeling the social dynamics of online discussion sites
Proceedings of the International Workshop on Modeling Social Media
Web applications and public diplomacy
KES'10 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Knowledge-based and intelligent information and engineering systems: Part III
Grooming analysis modeling the social interactions of online discussion groups
MSM'10/MUSE'10 Proceedings of the 2010 international conference on Analysis of social media and ubiquitous data
Motivating participation in social computing applications: a user modeling perspective
User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction
Anticipating Requirements Changes-Using Futurology in Requirements Elicitation
International Journal of Information System Modeling and Design
Modeling and exploiting collaborative traces in web-based collaborative working environment
Computers in Human Behavior
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In recent years, extensive studies of many interesting aspects of virtual community dynamics promoted a better understanding of this area. One of the most challenging problems facing builders of virtual communities is the design of incentive mechanisms that can ensure user participation. However, running virtual community experiments in the real world is expensive, and requires a great deal of motivation from users. In this paper we advocate a system dynamics approach to simulate the overall behaviors of participants in the communities, which can provide insights into the user motivation process, incentive mechanism evaluation and community development. A simulation model for a virtual community called Comtella is presented, and the results are very promising.