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@article{citeulike:4502265, abstract = {We describe a general stochastic processes-based approach to modelinguser-contributory web sites, where users create, rate and share content. Thesemodels describe aggregate measures of activity and how they arise from simplemodels of individual users. This approach provides a tractable method tounderstand user activity on the web site and how this activity depends on website design choices, especially the choice of what information about otherusers' behaviors is shown to each user. We illustrate this modeling approach inthe context of user-created content on the news rating site Digg.}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, author = {Hogg, Tad and Lerman, Kristina}, booktitle = {Proceedings of International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM)}, citeulike-article-id = {4502265}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0904.0016}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://arxiv.org/pdf/0904.0016}, day = {31}, eprint = {0904.0016}, keywords = {digg, hogg, lerman, mathematicalmodeling, mathematicalmodels, mysocialweb, stochasticmodels}, month = {Mar}, posted-at = {2009-05-22 23:30:59}, priority = {2}, title = {Stochastic Models of User-Contributory Web Sites}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0904.0016}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:4502265 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4502265 N2 - We describe a general stochastic processes-based approach to modelinguser-contributory web sites, where users create, rate and share content. Thesemodels describe aggregate measures of activity and how they arise from simplemodels of individual users. This approach provides a tractable method tounderstand user activity on the web site and how this activity depends on website design choices, especially the choice of what information about otherusers' behaviors is shown to each user. We illustrate this modeling approach inthe context of user-created content on the news rating site Digg. TI - Stochastic Models of User-Contributory Web Sites T2 - Proceedings of International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM) KW - digg KW - hogg KW - lerman KW - mathematicalmodeling KW - mathematicalmodels KW - mysocialweb KW - stochasticmodels AU - Hogg, Tad AU - Lerman, Kristina PY - 2009/Mar/31/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/0904.0016 ER -