Social machines: a unified paradigm to describe, design and implement emerging social systems

• Ano de defesa: 2014
• Autor(a) principal: BURÉGIO, Vanilson André de Arruda
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: eng
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
• Palavras-chave em Português: Social machines; Software engineering; Software architecture; Social systems; Web-oriented systems; Máquinas sociais; Engenharia de software; Arquitetura de software; Sistemas sociais; Sistemas orientados a web
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.ufpe.br/handle/123456789/12430

The open, distributed approach of the Web and the relationship’s prevalence of applications and services are transforming both the way we develop software and how they operate and interact with each other. As a result, a novel breed of applications is emerging, and consequently new mental models are needed to deal with them. In this context, Social Machines appear as a promising model for developing software. However, it is a fresh topic, with concepts and definitions coming from different research fields, making a unified understanding of the concept a somewhat challenging endeavor. In this thesis we provide a more coherent conceptual basis for understanding Social Machines as a unified paradigm to describe, design and implement emerging social applications and services. To do that, we revisited the concept of relationship and extend the notion of Social Machines to establish a common abstraction model that is used for blending computational and social elements into software. Second, to describe social machines, this proposal presents an analysis guideline that addresses some issues related to the engineering exercise of existing systems. Third, we provide the Social Machine-oriented Architecture (SoMAr) - a hybrid style to design social machines through the combination of different principles from current software engineering practice. Finally, we discuss the experiences and lessons learned from applying the social machines paradigm in different contexts.