Market-Based Adaptive Discussion Forums

One of the most successful and simplest Internet-based systems to promote the spread of knowledge are discussion forums. Unfortunately, not much research has been done to improve them by introducing adaptive capabilities. In this paper we discuss a market-oriented mechanism to promote the knowledge exchange activity in discussion forums. Our system provides a strategy to dynamically adapt the structure of the forums by using statistics about users behavior. By doing so, we minimize the response time in which questions are satisfactorily answered.