ABSTRACT
Information is an important resource element which the virtual scientific research team requires. To a great extent, the acquisition time, cost, and obstacles of useful information aect the users’ willingness and satisfaction. When mankind entered the network-centric world, they had been drowned by the huge amount of information they created. “Information explosion” or even “information overload”, which make users encounter more diculties and challenges when they seeking and utilizing information. Although information can be transformed into knowledge, and then it can be into behavior, decision-making ability, whereas in the chain of information to knowledge to capabilities, information is the starting point, our primary task is to obtain information on the behavioral decision. Because of the complexity of the network information environment, we must take appropriate information foraging strategies to obtain information. One purpose of researching information foraging is to explain and predict how people taking the most optimal information foraging strategies to change their behavior to adapt the changing of information environment.
