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Elements of software ecosystem early-stage design for collective intelligence systems

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Angelika Musil,

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WEA 2013: Proceedings of the 2013 International Workshop on Ecosystem Architectures

Pages 21 - 25

https://doi.org/10.1145/2501585.2501590

Published: 19 August 2013 Publication History

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User-contribution driven software service platforms like crowdsourcing and social media services represent an efficient 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 identified self-organization 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 specific SECO elements.

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WEA 2013: Proceedings of the 2013 International Workshop on Ecosystem Architectures

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