%0 Journal Article %A Maya Rupert and Salima Hassas and Carlos Li and John Sherwood %D 2007 %J International Journal of Computer and Information Engineering %B World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology %I Open Science Index 6, 2007 %T Simulation of Online Communities Using MAS Social and Spatial Organisations %U https://publications.waset.org/pdf/8245 %V 6 %X Online Communities are an example of sociallyaware, self-organising, complex adaptive computing systems. The multi-agent systems (MAS) paradigm coordinated by self-organisation mechanisms has been used as an effective way for the simulation and modeling of such systems. In this paper, we propose a model for simulating an online health community using a situated multi-agent system approach, governed by the co-evolution of the social and spatial organisations of the agents. %P 1606 - 1611