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Computer Science ›› 2020, Vol. 47 ›› Issue (6): 32-37.doi: 10.11896/jsjkx.191000088

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Modeling and Simulation of Q&A Community and Its Incentive Mechanism

XU Zi-xi1,2, MAO Xin-jun1,2, YANG Yi1, LU Yao1   

  1. 1 School of Computer Science,National University of Defense Technology,Changsha 410073,China
    2 Key Laboratory of Complex Systems Software Engineering,National University of Defense Technology,Changsha 410073,China
  • Received:2019-10-15 Online:2020-06-15 Published:2020-06-10
  • About author:XU Zi-xi,born in 1995,postgraduate,is a member of China Computer Federation.His main research interests include software engineering in open source community and so on.
    MAO Xin-jun,born in 1970,Ph.D,Ph.D supervisor,is a member of China Computer Federation.His main research interests include software engineering and so on.
  • Supported by:
    This work was supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (2018YFB1004202) and Key Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (61532004).

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Abstract: Question and Answer (Q&A) community has become an important platform of knowledge sharing over the Internet.It provides a series of incentive mechanisms (such as reputation,badge,privilege,etc.) to encourage users to participate,contri-bute,and improve the activities of the community.How to analyze the effectiveness of these incentive mechanisms and guide their improvement is an important challenge for the research and practice of Q&A community.This paper proposes a modeling and simulation analysis method based on multi-agent system.The community with a great amount of users is modelled as a multi-agent system consisting of autonomous agents,the contribution and interaction among community users are modelled as the coo-perative behavior of agents driven by the incentive mechanism.This paper specifies the incentive mechanism as the belief of agents,examines the generation of agent desires and the behaviors of agents based on self-determination theory.This paper collects the data of Stack Overflow community from 2016 to 2018,and conducts a simulation experiments on the development and evolution of the community based on NetLogo.The results show that the proposed model and mechanism abstractions can effectively explain and reveal the evolution process of Q&A community under the influence of incentive mechanism.

Key words: BDI model, Multi-agent system, Q&A community, Self-determinism theory, Simulation

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  • TP391.9
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