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Web Communities (WCs) are emerging as business enablers in the electronic marketplace. As the size of the community becomes increasingly large, there is a tendency for some members of the community to use resources provided by the community without necessarily making any contribution. It is, therefore, necessary to determine members’ contributions towards sustaining the community. In this paper, we present a formal framework to dynamically measure the interactivity of members, and indeed the interactivity level of the community. This formal foundation is necessary to eliminate ad hoc approaches that characterize existing solutions, and provide a sound foundation for this new research area. We design an efficient interactivity algorithm, and also implement a prototype of the system.
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Adiele, C. (2007). A Formal Design of Web Community Interactivity. In: Dong, G., Lin, X., Wang, W., Yang, Y., Yu, J.X. (eds) Advances in Data and Web Management. APWeb WAIM 2007 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4505. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72524-4_81
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