Open Social Networking for Online Collaboration

Abstract

Features of online social networks are being introduced in various applications and environments, including tools supporting virtual teams and online collaboration in general. In fact, social networking has a large potential for easing collaboration, also across organizational boundaries. However, effective e-collaboration through social networks requires the development of open and interoperable systems, allowing people belonging to different organizations to create ties, reflecting real connections existing in daily activities. Attention has to be paid to identity management, for allowing users to develop their reputation consistently, and to privacy and confidentiality, for creating a more trustful environment and protecting freedom of expression. In this article, the authors propose a novel peer-to-peer system, named Blogracy, leveraging the large BitTorrent network. Its main distinguishing features are: (i) protection of users' identity and privacy, (ii) absence of central control over published content; (iii) interoperability with other systems; and (iv) low costs and scalability of the infrastructure.

A Multi-Agent Architecture for Data Analysis

“…For achieving this last goal, we are planning to use hardware redundancy and some multi-agent fault-tolerance coordination techniques. Moreover, we are planning to extend the use of ActoDatA to the analysis of the information coming from the structure of social networks [31,32]. Finally, we are planning the porting of ActoDatA to the JADE software framework [33].…”

Promoting public cooperation in government: key drivers, regulation, and barriers of the e-collaboration movement in Kazakhstan

“…Key stages and methods of case-study research. examples of such cooperation, mostly in the context of private corporations and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) (Franchi et al, 2013;Kock, 2011;Lavender et al, 2016;Merschbrock and Munkvold, 2014;Rosenzweig, 2009) and rarely in an environment of public institutions (Bataineh and Abu-Shanab, 2016;Hao et al, 2016;Zheng et al, 2016). As a result, the development of its robust theoretical foundation is yet to be determined in future analysis and policy reviews.…”

“…Its emergence as a phenomenon only became possible with the recent truly explosive growth of various digital public and corporate platforms that promote interactive feedback and networking, such as blog-platforms, wiki-technologies, discussion boards, and so on (Fichter, 2005), for example, between government and citizens or between government and private corporations. In this respect, empirical research is overwhelmingly prevalent in the academic literature since many works focus on the analysis of concrete examples of such cooperation, mostly in the context of private corporations and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) (Franchi et al, 2013; Kock, 2011; Lavender et al, 2016; Merschbrock and Munkvold, 2014; Rosenzweig, 2009) and rarely in an environment of public institutions (Bataineh and Abu-Shanab, 2016; Hao et al, 2016; Zheng et al, 2016). As a result, the development of its robust theoretical foundation is yet to be determined in future analysis and policy reviews.…”

Towards Cloud-Based Distributed Scaleable Processing over Large-Scale Temporal Graphs

“…It is known for a long time now [2] that digital communication, especially e-mail, provides a less formal communication which allows members of an organization to communicate along more informal paths creating short cuts in the often formally defined structures of organizations. Informal paths in communication do not end at a corporations boundaries but even span several institutions during times institutions have chosen to collaborate [3]. The problem now is that these informal organizational structures are subject to dynamic change as institutions face new challenges in their likewise dynamic environment.…”