Co-evolution of products & communities in mass collaborative product development - A computational exploration

DS 58-1: Proceedings of ICED 09, the 17th International Conference on Engineering Design

Volumn 1, Issue , 2009, Pages 49-60

  Panchal, Jitesh H ^a  

^a Washington State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Agent based modeling; Evolution; Mass collaboration; Product development; Social Network Analysis

Indexed keywords

AGENT-BASED MODELING; ASSOCIATED COMMUNITIES; CO-EVOLUTION; COLLABORATIVE PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; COMMUNITY IS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURES; COMPUTATIONAL EXPLORATION; EVOLUTION; MASS COLLABORATION; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; PRODUCTS AND SERVICES; SELF-ORGANIZING SYSTEMS; SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS; TOPDOWN; WEIGHTED DIRECTED GRAPH;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); SOCIAL SCIENCES;

PRODUCT DESIGN;

EID: 84859224616     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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