TY - GEN
T1 - Co-operative infrastructures
T2 - 46th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2013
AU - Haas, Christian
AU - Caton, Simon
AU - Chard, Kyle
AU - Weinhardt, Christof
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Social Cloud Computing is an emerging online collaboration paradigm which is characteristic of many socially oriented electronic platforms. The operation of such a platform requires computational infrastructure to facilitate the platform itself as well as the services enabling its basic operation. While this infrastructure currently requires capital-intensive investments, we believe it is possible, and even advantageous, to use a co-operative model where the platform (i.e. its computational infrastructure) is provided by the users themselves. In this paper, we define a formal economic model for a co-operative infrastructure in the context of a socially oriented platform and analyze (through simulation) the model with respect to its feasibility and scalability. Using Social Clouds as a use case, we demonstrate in several scenarios that the co-operative approach does not only have advantages over dedicated infrastructures, but also is a particularly suitable model for providing core infrastructure in social (computing) platforms.
AB - Social Cloud Computing is an emerging online collaboration paradigm which is characteristic of many socially oriented electronic platforms. The operation of such a platform requires computational infrastructure to facilitate the platform itself as well as the services enabling its basic operation. While this infrastructure currently requires capital-intensive investments, we believe it is possible, and even advantageous, to use a co-operative model where the platform (i.e. its computational infrastructure) is provided by the users themselves. In this paper, we define a formal economic model for a co-operative infrastructure in the context of a socially oriented platform and analyze (through simulation) the model with respect to its feasibility and scalability. Using Social Clouds as a use case, we demonstrate in several scenarios that the co-operative approach does not only have advantages over dedicated infrastructures, but also is a particularly suitable model for providing core infrastructure in social (computing) platforms.
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U2 - 10.1109/HICSS.2013.147
DO - 10.1109/HICSS.2013.147
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84875516633
SN - 9780769548920
T3 - Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
SP - 729
EP - 738
BT - Proceedings of the 46th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2013
Y2 - 7 January 2013 through 10 January 2013
ER -