Simulation in Virtual Knowledge Communities
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چکیده
The information society has reached a new era of communication and knowledge management. Virtual communities are emerging as a requirement in this new information distribution scheme. We investigate the concept of virtual knowledge communities using an agent-based abstraction. In this field, there is a need for evaluating the performances and the quality of a global system resulting from the behavior of distributed and autonomous entities. We provide a theoretical background for simulation as well as an implementation of a simulator based on our prototype for virtual knowledge communities.
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