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From News to Chat, electronic discussion groups are widely acknowledged as a popular medium of communication. Unlike electronic mail which is rather easy to handle since it operates on a one-to-one bases, to keep up with forum discussions is extremely demanding. Participation in forums requires a constant effort of selection and attention from the user which goes beyond the limits of cognitive capacities. In this paper, we suggest to cope with this problem by introducing communication-oriented modeling (COM) as an alternative to agent-oriented modeling (AOM). Our approach to COM is based on theoretical foundations inspired by socionics and sociology.
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Malsch, T., Schlieder, C. (2004). Communication without Agents? From Agent-Oriented to Communication-Oriented Modeling. In: Lindemann, G., Moldt, D., Paolucci, M. (eds) Regulated Agent-Based Social Systems. RASTA 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2934. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-25867-4_7
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