Virtual Communities of Practice's Purpose Evolution Analysis Using a Concept-Based Mining Approach

Today, social networks systems have become more and more important. People have change their way to relate and communicate. Therefore, how to enhance contents and organization of a social network is a very important task. This way, we can help Virtual communities of practice (VCoP) to survive through time. VCoP are special kind of social network where the purpose is a key aspect. However, administrators are blind when trying to identify how to enhance the community. We propose a method which helps them by analyzing how purpose evolves through time. The approach has been experimentally tested in a real site with successful results.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: KES
• Authors: Sebastián A. Ríos, Felipe Aguilera, Luis A. Guerrero
• Keywords: Important Task, KES 2009, Social Network, Social Networks Systems