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An Open System for Social Computation

An Open System for Social Computation
An Open System for Social Computation
Part of the power of social computation comes from using the collective intelligence of humans to tame the aggregate uncertainty of (otherwise) low veracity data obtained from human and automated sources. We have witnessed a surge in development of social computing systems but, ironically, there have been few attempts to generalise across this activity so that creation of the underlying mechanisms themselves can be made more social. We describe a method for achieving this by standardising patterns of social computation via lightweight formal specifications (we call these social artifacts) that can be connected to existing internet architectures via a single model of computation. Upon this framework we build a mechanism for extracting provenance meta-data across social computations.
IOS Press
Robertson, David
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Moreau, Luc
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Murray-Rust, David
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O'Hara, Kieron
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Robertson, David
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Moreau, Luc
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Murray-Rust, David
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Robertson, David, Moreau, Luc, Murray-Rust, David and O'Hara, Kieron (2014) An Open System for Social Computation. In, O'Hara, Kieron , Nguyen, M.-H. Carolyn and Haynes, Peter D. (eds.) Digital Enlightenment Yearbook 2014: Social Networks and Social Machines, Surveillance and Empowerment. IOS Press.

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Abstract

Part of the power of social computation comes from using the collective intelligence of humans to tame the aggregate uncertainty of (otherwise) low veracity data obtained from human and automated sources. We have witnessed a surge in development of social computing systems but, ironically, there have been few attempts to generalise across this activity so that creation of the underlying mechanisms themselves can be made more social. We describe a method for achieving this by standardising patterns of social computation via lightweight formal specifications (we call these social artifacts) that can be connected to existing internet architectures via a single model of computation. Upon this framework we build a mechanism for extracting provenance meta-data across social computations.

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Published date: 2014
Organisations: Web & Internet Science

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Local EPrints ID: 371943
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/371943
PURE UUID: 77dd0343-08b4-4364-9002-f6a4fb62a419
ORCID for Luc Moreau: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-3494-120X
ORCID for Kieron O'Hara: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-9051-4456

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Date deposited: 19 Nov 2014 15:24
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 03:09

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Author: David Robertson
Author: Luc Moreau ORCID iD
Author: David Murray-Rust
Author: Kieron O'Hara ORCID iD

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