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J. Musil, A. Musil, S. Biffl:
"Elements of software ecosystem early-stage design for collective intelligence systems";
Talk: The 1st International Workshop on Software Ecosystem Architectures (WEA 2013), Saint Petersburg, Russia; 2013-08-19; in: "WEA 2013 Proceedings of the 2013 International Workshop on Ecosystem Architectures", ACM, (2013), ISBN: 978-1-4503-2314-7; 21 - 25.

User-contribution driven software service platforms like crowdsourcing
and social media services represent an e cient way of aggregating and distributing knowledge. However, only little research has been reported on early-stage design of software ecosystems (SECOs) for software service platforms, in particular in the collective intelligence (CI) domain. In this work we analyze needs for CI-centered SECOs leading to new research challenges. We have identi ed selforganization and feedback mechanisms as essential characteristics in CI-centered SECOs and thus introduce design
elements for structuring them properly at an early stage of design. We discuss the concept with a real-world use case from a widely used CI-centered SECO, Wikipedia. A major result is the successful mapping of the design elements to the speci c SECO elements.

Collective intelligence, human computation, software architecture, software ecosystems, stigmergic information system

http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2501585.2501590