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SIS: an architecture pattern for collective intelligence systems

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Angelika Musil,

Stefan BifflAuthors Info & Claims

EuroPLoP '15: Proceedings of the 20th European Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs

Article No.: 20, Pages 1 - 12

https://doi.org/10.1145/2855321.2855342

Published: 08 July 2015 Publication History

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Collective intelligence systems (CIS) like social networking services, wikis and social media platforms have influenced the way how people create knowledge and share information. An important aspect of these systems is how they mediate interaction and coordination among their user base. In this paper we report the Stigmergic Information System (SIS) architecture pattern that can be used by software architects to describe a wide range of CIS on a systemic level. The SIS pattern builds upon the nature-inspired coordination mechanism of stigmergy, which enables indirect communication of agents via traces in the environment. The SIS pattern describes a hybrid human-computer system where humans collectively create and share knowledge and thereby a virtual artifact network is growing that is managed by a reactive/adaptive computing infrastructure. The SIS pattern aims to support software architects to take into account the system design of CIS from an implementation-agnostic perspective.

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Musil AMusil JWeyns DBures TMuccini HSharaf M(2017)Patterns for Self-Adaptation in Cyber-Physical SystemsMulti-Disciplinary Engineering for Cyber-Physical Production Systems10.1007/978-3-319-56345-9_13(331-368)Online publication date: 7-May-2017
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