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Prosperity and Decline of Online Communities

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PRIMA 2013: Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA 2013)

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Abstract

On the basis of analyzing user behavior using the actual data of online communities, we constructed a model of user behavior in an online community. We found two fundamental characteristics (diversity and motivation of participants (content-oriented or friendship-based)) that majorly affect the time evolution of online communities. In addition, the model reproduced what happens in reality, such as time-scale transition of the number of posts and distribution of the number of posts in all periods.

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  1. Graduate School of Enginireeing, Univirsity of Tokyo, 7-3-1, Hongo, Bunkyoku, Tokyo, Japan

    Kimitaka Asatani, Fujio Toriumi & Hirotada Ohashi

  2. Nifty Corporation, Japan Shinjuku Front Tower 21-1, Kita-shinjuku 2-chome, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan

    Mitsuteru Tashiro & Ryuichi Suzuki

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  1. Kimitaka Asatani
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  1. Dipartimento di Informatica,, Università degli Studi di Torino, via Pessinetto 12,, 10149, Torino, Italy

    Guido Boella

  2. Division of Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

    Edith Elkind

  3. Department of Information Science, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

    Bastin Tony Roy Savarimuthu  & Martin K. Purvis  & 

  4. Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Frank Dignum

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Asatani, K., Toriumi, F., Ohashi, H., Tashiro, M., Suzuki, R. (2013). Prosperity and Decline of Online Communities. In: Boella, G., Elkind, E., Savarimuthu, B.T.R., Dignum, F., Purvis, M.K. (eds) PRIMA 2013: Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems. PRIMA 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8291. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-44927-7_27

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