communities to predict their future behavior. We limit our discussion to web forums, the most
generic type of online communities. We first address the problem of measuring the ties
between authors where there is (almost) no direct information (ie citations) about the tie
between two authors. We developed a surrogate metrics to this problem so that a
corresponding social network can be constructed. However, while such networks are …
In this paper we use the social networks of active members (ie authors) in online
communities to predict their future behavior. We limit our discussion to web forums, the most
generic type of online communities. We first address the problem of measuring the ties
between authors where there is (almost) no direct information (ie citations) about the tie
between two authors. We developed a surrogate metrics to this problem so that a
corresponding social network can be constructed. However, while such networks are …