Kaiser C, Piazza A, Kröckel J, Bodendorf F (2011)
Publication Type: Conference contribution, Conference Contribution
Publication year: 2011
Publisher: IEEE
Edited Volumes: Proceedings - 2011 IEEE International Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust and IEEE International Conference on Social Computing, PASSAT/SocialCom 2011
City/Town: New York
Book Volume: 0
Pages Range: 266-273
Conference Proceedings Title: Proceedings of the Third IEEE International Conference on Social Computing
Event location: Boston, MA
DOI: 10.1109/PASSAT/SocialCom.2011.94
Web 2.0 platforms give people more power over the way they share information and exchange opinions. The increase in social interactivity leads to the emerging of self-organized communities where members form their opinions via social swarming. This paper introduces a new approach which enables predicting and explaining the process of collective opinion formation by social swarming. A computational model for simulating collective opinion formation is derived from the ant colony metaheuristic and applied to an exemplary online community where the members'opinions are identified via text mining. For validation purposes, this approach is compared to three other approaches. © 2011 IEEE.
APA:
Kaiser, C., Piazza, A., Kröckel, J., & Bodendorf, F. (2011). Are Humans like Ants? - Analyzing Collective Opinion Formation in Online Discussions. In Proceedings of the Third IEEE International Conference on Social Computing (pp. 266-273). Boston, MA: New York: IEEE.
MLA:
Kaiser, Carolin, et al. "Are Humans like Ants? - Analyzing Collective Opinion Formation in Online Discussions." Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust, PASSAT 2011 and 2011 IEEE International Conference on Social Computing, SocialCom 2011, Boston, MA New York: IEEE, 2011. 266-273.
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