@inproceedings{c8b36b1a03ba4a49b28635d3e2fc8390,
title = "A model of online collaboration for knowledge production",
abstract = "Large scale collaboration is a fundamental characteristic of human society, and has recently manifested in the development and proliferation of online communities. These virtual social spaces provide an opportunity to explore large scale collaborations as natural experiments in which determinants of success can be tested. In order to do this, we first review previous work on meddling online communities to build an understanding of how these communities function. Having thus identified the operating mechanisms inherent in online communities, we propose a population ecology model of online communities that seeks to explain a number of statistical patterns from a selection of such communities.",
author = "Manning, {Miles K.} and Marcus Janssen and Lingfei Wu",
note = "Funding Information: We acknowledge financial support for this work from the National Science Foundation, grant number 1210856 and the Simon A. Levin Mathematical, Computational and Modeling Sciences Center. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2016 IEEE.; 2016 Winter Simulation Conference, WSC 2016 ; Conference date: 11-12-2016 Through 14-12-2016",
year = "2016",
month = jul,
day = "2",
doi = "10.1109/WSC.2016.7822376",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings - Winter Simulation Conference",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "3464--3475",
editor = "Roeder, {Theresa M.} and Frazier, {Peter I.} and Robert Szechtman and Enlu Zhou",
booktitle = "2016 Winter Simulation Conference",
}