Building a Network Community Support System
on the Multi-Agent Platform Shine
Sen Yoshida,
Koji Kamei, Takeshi Ohguro, Kazuhiro Kuwabara, and Kaname Funakoshi
NTT Communication Science Laboratories
{yoshida,kamei,ohguro,kuwabara,kf}@cslab.kecl.ntt.co.jp
Abstract
An increasing number of applications have been developed for
supporting network communities. The authors have developed Community
Organizer, which supports people in forming new network communities by
providing places where people sharing interests and concerns can meet
and communicate. The authors are also developing a platform named
Shine to reduce the tasks needed to implement a variety of network
community support systems such as Community Organizer. Shine has a
multi-agent architecture because it is effective for network community
support systems that have to adapt to dynamic changes in community
organizations. This paper explains both Community Organizer and
Shine, and then gives a description of building Community Organizer on
top of Shine.