Stochastic Models of User-Contributory Web Sites

Proceedings of the 3rd International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, ICWSM 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 50-57

  Hogg, Tad ^a   Lerman, Kristina ^b  

^a HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; RANDOM PROCESSES; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

AGGREGATE MEASURES; MODELING APPROACH; PROCESS-BASED APPROACH; SIMPLE MODELING; STOCHASTIC-MODELING; USER ACTIVITY; USER BEHAVIORS; USER CREATED CONTENT; WEB SITE DESIGN; WEB-SITES;

WEBSITES;

EID: 77954594882     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1609/icwsm.v3i1.13939     Document Type: Conference Paper

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