TY - GEN
T1 - A simulator for social exchanges and collaborations - Architecture and case study
AU - Haas, Christian
AU - Caton, Simon
AU - Trumpp, Daniel
AU - Weinhardt, Christof
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2013 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Social collaboration scenarios, such as sharing resources between friends, are becoming increasingly prevalent in recent years. An example of this new paradigm is Social Cloud Computing, which aims at leveraging existing digital relationships within social networks for the exchange of resources among users and user communities. Due to their complexity, such platforms and systems have to be carefully designed and engineered to suit their purpose. In this paper, we propose a general-purpose simulation tool to help in the design and analysis of Social Collaboration Platforms, and discuss potential use cases and the architecture of the simulator. To show the usefulness of the simulator, we present a simple use case in which we study the effects of an incentive scheme on the system and its user community.
AB - Social collaboration scenarios, such as sharing resources between friends, are becoming increasingly prevalent in recent years. An example of this new paradigm is Social Cloud Computing, which aims at leveraging existing digital relationships within social networks for the exchange of resources among users and user communities. Due to their complexity, such platforms and systems have to be carefully designed and engineered to suit their purpose. In this paper, we propose a general-purpose simulation tool to help in the design and analysis of Social Collaboration Platforms, and discuss potential use cases and the architecture of the simulator. To show the usefulness of the simulator, we present a simple use case in which we study the effects of an incentive scheme on the system and its user community.
KW - Simulation
KW - Social collaboration
KW - Social networks
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U2 - 10.1109/eScience.2012.6404414
DO - 10.1109/eScience.2012.6404414
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84873683230
SN - 9781467344678
T3 - 2012 IEEE 8th International Conference on E-Science, e-Science 2012
BT - 2012 IEEE 8th International Conference on E-Science, e-Science 2012
T2 - 2012 IEEE 8th International Conference on E-Science, e-Science 2012
Y2 - 8 October 2012 through 12 October 2012
ER -