Cloud computing has changed the application development landscape. Using a cloud to
outsource software development to a crowd of developers is an emerging area. While on …

Com o progressivo interesse em determinada classe de sistemas de informação baseados
na web, começou-se a trabalhar em pesquisas sobre Máquinas Sociais. A incorporação da …

Within nearly two decades after the open access movement emerged, its community has
drawn attention to understanding its development, coverage, obstacles and motivations. To …

Online and offline community are both studied but not as an intersection. There is a gap in
the literature on the nature of community that is blended online with offline and …

Despite all the advancements of software technologies to increase the productivity of
companies, their capabilities to find solutions for certain problem domains are still limited …

This opening chapter introduces the idea of social machines. The metaphor of a machine is
introduced, and it is explained how it applies to social groups connected through digitally …

Human participation in socio-technical systems is overgrowing conventional crowdsourcing
where humans solve simple, independent tasks. Novel systems are attempting to leverage …

Περίληψη Τα κλασικά μοντέλα ανάπτυξης εφαρμογών και υπηρεσιών πληροφορικής, όπως
το «Waterfall model», είναι πλέον παρωχυμένα λόγω των σύνθετων αναγκών χρήσης και του …

Since the invention of the Gutenberg press, machines have had a transformative impact on
human interaction. As a result of the Industrial Revolution, machine influence on how we …

In this paper, we describe extensions to the process model first described in the paper “From
Search to Observation” based on additional field interview work. This process model forms …