Enhancing Online Communities with Cycle-Sharing for Social Networks

Apolónia, Nuno; Ferreira, Paulo; Veiga, Luís

doi:10.1007/978-1-4471-4048-1_7

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“…As far as we know, this paper presents one of the few experiments that measure the performance of a socio-technical metacomputer, that is, a spontaneously created parallel computer that uses social networks for operations such as gathering new users. Apolónia et al (Apolónia et al, 2012) used the Facebook protocol to distribute tasks among the walls of friends, explicitly using the social network for computing. However, it stopped short of relating performance to the macro measures of the users' social networks.…”

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confidence: 99%

The human in the loop: volunteer-based metacomputers as a socio-technical system

Merelo¹,

Cuevas²,

Snchez³

et al. 2016

Proceedings of the Artificial Life Conference 2016

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Volunteer computing is a form of distributed computing where users decide on their participation and the amount of time and other resources they will "lend". This makes them an essential part of the algorithm and of the performance of the whole system. As a socio-technical system, this participation follows some patterns and in this paper we examine the result of several volunteer distributed evolutionary computation experiments and try to find out what those patterns are and what makes an experiment successful or not, including the feedback loop that is created between the users and the algorithm itself.

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Section: State Of the Artmentioning

confidence: 99%