A system dynamic model for analyzing online question  &  answer markets

Amani, E.; Kianfar, F.

Abstract: During the past two decades, there have been growing interests on developing websites to build a link between various groups of people to share their knowledge such as Google service. This kind of activity helps fast and reliable distribution of knowledge since someone disseminates a question and various people attempt to provide some responses. This paper presents a system dynamic method for investigating the relationships between various components of a benchmark site. The proposed study develops closed loop dynamic among various components of the survey and provides some necessary actions for development of such systems. The results of our survey have indicated that the new forum could end up having significant number of unanswered questions. Therefore, researchers who work for this forum are suggested to increase their skills and their response rates to reduce the rate of unanswered questions.

How to cite this paper

        APA: Amani, E & Kianfar, F. (2014). A system dynamic model for analyzing online question  &  answer markets. Management Science Letters, 4(3), 549-554.
    

        Chicago/Turabian: Amani, E & Kianfar, F. 2014. "A system dynamic model for analyzing online question  &  answer markets." Management Science Letters 4, no. 3 (2014): 549-554.
    

        AMA: Amani, E & Kianfar, F. A system dynamic model for analyzing online question  &  answer markets. Management Science Letters. 2014;4(3):549-554.
    

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