Modeling the behavior of lurkers in online communities using intentional agents

CIMCA 2006: International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation, Jointly with IAWTIC 2006: International Conference on Intelligent Agents Web Technologies ...

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Du, Yong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; INTERNET; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MESSAGE PASSING;

GOAL-ORIENTED MODELING; LURKERS; ONLINE COMMUNITY;

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 38849184282     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CIMCA.2006.149     Document Type: Conference Paper

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