Top

Published in:

2020 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

Activity-selection Behavior and Optimal User-distribution in Q&A Websites

Authors : Anamika Chhabra, S. R. S. Iyengar, Jaspal Singh Saini, Vaibhav Malik

Published in: Computational Collective Intelligence

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

Activate our intelligent search to find suitable subject content or patents.

search-config

AI-assisted search

Off

Abstract

Based on various factors such as experience, interest, and motivation, users in any system choose to perform certain activities more than the others. In this study, we investigate a similar behavior and its dynamics in the websites of StackExchange. We find that most of the users in these websites tend to contribute predominantly to one of the activities available on these websites. Such a behavior yields a high-level distribution of users across the activities, referred to as User-distribution. We find that this distribution varies for different websites of StackExchange. We also observe that the users contributing to different activities trigger each other to provide more contribution. Using these insights, we build a model that explains the effect of change in user-distribution on the amount of knowledge produced on these websites. The model shows that one can formulate an optimal ecosystem by motivating the right kind of users, which leads to the maximum fostering of knowledge on these websites.

Dont have a licence yet? Then find out more about our products and how to get one now:

Springer Professional "Wirtschaft+Technik"

Online-Abonnement

Mit Springer Professional "Wirtschaft+Technik" erhalten Sie Zugriff auf:

über 102.000 Bücher
über 537 Zeitschriften

aus folgenden Fachgebieten:

Automobil + Motoren
Bauwesen + Immobilien
Business IT + Informatik
Elektrotechnik + Elektronik
Energie + Nachhaltigkeit
Finance + Banking
Management + Führung
Marketing + Vertrieb
Maschinenbau + Werkstoffe
Versicherung + Risiko

Jetzt Wissensvorsprung sichern!

inform now

Springer Professional "Technik"

Online-Abonnement

Mit Springer Professional "Technik" erhalten Sie Zugriff auf:

über 67.000 Bücher
über 390 Zeitschriften

aus folgenden Fachgebieten:

Automobil + Motoren
Bauwesen + Immobilien
Business IT + Informatik
Elektrotechnik + Elektronik
Energie + Nachhaltigkeit
Maschinenbau + Werkstoffe

Jetzt Wissensvorsprung sichern!

inform now

Springer Professional "Wirtschaft"

Online-Abonnement

Mit Springer Professional "Wirtschaft" erhalten Sie Zugriff auf:

über 67.000 Bücher
über 340 Zeitschriften

aus folgenden Fachgebieten:

Bauwesen + Immobilien
Business IT + Informatik
Finance + Banking
Management + Führung
Marketing + Vertrieb
Versicherung + Risiko

Jetzt Wissensvorsprung sichern!

inform now

previous chapter A Procedure for the Routinary Correction of Back-to-Front Degradations in Archival Manuscripts

next chapter Reliability of Video Conferencing Applications Based on the WebRTC Standard Used on Different Web Platforms

https://archive.org/download/stackexchange.

Adamic, L.A., Zhang, J., Bakshy, E., Ackerman, M.S.: Knowledge sharing and yahoo answers: everyone knows something. In: Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on World Wide Web, pp. 665–674. ACM (2008)

Agrawal, R., Rajagopalan, S., Srikant, R., Xu, Y.: Mining newsgroups using networks arising from social behavior. In: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on World Wide Web, pp. 529–535. ACM (2003)

Arazy, O., Lifshitz-Assaf, H., Nov, O., Daxenberger, J., Balestra, M., Cheshire, C.: On the ‘how’ and ‘why’ of emergent role behaviors in Wikipedia. In: Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, vol. 35 (2017)

Chhabra, A., Iyengar, S.S.: Characterizing the triggering phenomenon in Wikipedia. In: Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Open Collaboration, p. 11. ACM (2018)

Chhabra, A., Iyengar, S.: How does knowledge come by? arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.06946 (2017)

Chhabra, A., Iyengar, S., Saini, P., Bhat, R.S.: Presence of an ecosystem: a catalyst in the knowledge building process in crowdsourced annotation environments. In: Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2015) (2015)

Chhabra, A., RS Iyengar, S.: Activity-selection behavior of users in StackExchange websites. In: Companion Proceedings of the Web Conference 2020, pp. 105–106 (2020)

Furtado, A., Andrade, N., Oliveira, N., Brasileiro, F.: Contributor profiles, their dynamics, and their importance in five q&a sites. In: Proceedings of the 2013 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, pp. 1237–1252. ACM (2013)

Golder, S.A., Donath, J.: Social roles in electronic communities. Internet Res. 5, 19–22 (2004)

10.

He, J., Tan, A.H., Tan, C.L., Sung, S.Y.: On quantitative evaluation of clustering systems. In: Wu, W., Xiong, H., Shekhar, S. (eds.) Clustering and Information Retrieval. Network Theory and Applications, vol. 11, pp. 105–133. Springer, Boston (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0227-8_4CrossRef

11.

Iacopini, I., Milojević, S., Latora, V.: Network dynamics of innovation processes. Phys. Rev. Lett. 120(4), 048301 (2018)CrossRef

12.

Liu, J., Ram, S.: Who does what: collaboration patterns in the Wikipedia and their impact on article quality. ACM Trans. Manag. Inf. Syst. (TMIS) 2(2), 11 (2011)

13.

Marengo, L., Zeppini, P.: The arrival of the new. J. Evol. Econ. 26(1), 171–194 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00191-015-0438-0CrossRef

14.

Rezgui, A., Crowston, K.: Stigmergic coordination in Wikipedia. In: Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Open Collaboration, p. 19. ACM (2018)

15.

Tausczik, Y.R., Pennebaker, J.W.: Participation in an online mathematics community: differentiating motivations to add. In: Proceedings of the ACM 2012 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, pp. 207–216. ACM (2012)

16.

Tria, F., Loreto, V., Servedio, V.D.P., Strogatz, S.H.: The dynamics of correlated novelties. Sci. Rep. 4, 5890 (2014)CrossRef

17.

Welser, H.T., Gleave, E., Fisher, D., Smith, M.: Visualizing the signatures of social roles in online discussion groups. J. Soc. Struct. 8(2), 1–32 (2007)

18.

Yang, J., Tao, K., Bozzon, A., Houben, G.-J.: Sparrows and owls: characterisation of expert behaviour in StackOverflow. In: Dimitrova, V., Kuflik, T., Chin, D., Ricci, F., Dolog, P., Houben, G.-J. (eds.) UMAP 2014. LNCS, vol. 8538, pp. 266–277. Springer, Cham (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08786-3_23CrossRef

Title: Activity-selection Behavior and Optimal User-distribution in Q&A Websites
Authors: Anamika Chhabra
S. R. S. Iyengar
Jaspal Singh Saini
Vaibhav Malik
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Computational Collective Intelligence
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-63006-5

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-63007-2

Copyright Year: 2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63007-2_67

Springer Professional

Abstract

Please log in to get access to your license.

Dont have a licence yet? Then find out more about our products and how to get one now:

Springer Professional "Wirtschaft+Technik"

Springer Professional "Technik"

Springer Professional "Wirtschaft"

Premium Partner