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One of the most successful and simplest Internet-based systems to promote the spread of knowledge are discussion forums. Unfortunately, not much research has been done to improve them by introducing adaptive capabilities. In this paper we discuss a market-oriented mechanism to promote the knowledge exchange activity in discussion forums. Our system provides a strategy to dynamically adapt the structure of the forums by using statistics about users behavior. By doing so, we minimize the response time in which questions are satisfactorily answered. In addition to that, the effort needed to generate useful information is also reduced.
Research partially supported by the Spanish MCYT project TIN2006-15578-C02-01, the Junta de Castilla-La Mancha project PAC06-0008-6995, and the Marie Curie project MRTN-CT-2003-505121/TAROT.
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López, N., Núñez, M., Rabanal, P., Rodríguez, I., Rubio, F. (2009). Market-Based Adaptive Discussion Forums. In: Damiani, E., Yetongnon, K., Chbeir, R., Dipanda, A. (eds) Advanced Internet Based Systems and Applications. SITIS 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4879. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01350-8_14
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