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Agent-Based Wiki Page Simulation: A Conceptual Model

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Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications

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This chapter provides details regarding the development of an agent-based model (ABM) used to understand and analyze editorial changes made to Wiki pages in sites such as Wikipedia and ELATEwiki. The model was structured using a discrete space approach where letters were represented as agents with capabilities that include changing character symbol, deletion, or re-introduction based on rates derived from wiki page histories. Wiki-Hist-Heist, a pre-processor written in C#, was developed to derive information from existing wiki histories and provide model inputs based on detected distributions. The Wiki Page ABM was built using AnyLogic 7.1 which provided user-friendly features and a framework for model organization, experiments, and results. An input form was developed to enable changes to inputs so a variety of pages could be modelled. Overall, this project illustrates the usefulness of AnyLogic 7.1 and its ABM features in this domain. Study limitations and future directions also are described.

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Acknowledgements

The authors would like to acknowledge the help of Matthew McHaney with his insight into Java programming and his idea to create a wiki page controller agent to be included in Phase 2 of this project. An earlier version of this research appears in SIMULTECH 2015 conference proceedings.

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  1. Management Information Systems, Kansas State University, 101 Calvin Hall, Manhattan, KS, USA

    Roger W. McHaney & Jonathan Mossberg

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  1. Dept. of Computer & Info Science, Fordham University, Bronx, New York, USA

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  2. Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

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  3. Faculty of Engg school of ECE, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

    Tuncer Ören

  4. Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal, Setúbal, Portugal

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McHaney, R.W., Mossberg, J. (2016). Agent-Based Wiki Page Simulation: A Conceptual Model. In: Obaidat, M., Kacprzyk, J., Ören, T., Filipe, J. (eds) Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 442. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31295-8_9

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