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Social machines: a unified paradigm to describe social web-oriented systems

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Vanilson Buregio,

Nelson RosaAuthors Info & Claims

WWW '13 Companion: Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on World Wide Web

Pages 885 - 890

https://doi.org/10.1145/2487788.2488074

Published: 13 May 2013 Publication History

Abstract

Blending computational and social elements into software has gained significant attention in key conferences and journals. In this context, "Social Machines" appears as a promising model for unifying both computational and social processes. However, it is a fresh topic, with concepts and definitions coming from different research fields, making a unified understanding of the concept a somewhat challenging endeavor. This paper aims to investigate efforts related to this topic and build a preliminary classification scheme to structure the science of Social Machines. We provide a preliminary overview of this research area through the identification of the main visions, concepts, and approaches; we additionally examine the result of the convergence of existing contributions. With the field still in its early stage, we believe that this work can collaborate to the process of providing a more common and coherent conceptual basis for understanding Social Machines as a paradigm. Furthermore, this study helps detect important research issues and gaps in the area.

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