Paper Info
Title
Co-operative Infrastructures: An Economic Model for Providing Infrastructures for Social Cloud Computing
Abstract
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.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/HICSS.2013.147
HICSS
Keywords
Field
DocType
economic model,co-operative infrastructures,social cloud computing,dedicated infrastructure,oriented platform,electronic platform,providing infrastructures,formal economic model,suitable model,co-operative infrastructure,computational infrastructure,co-operative model,core infrastructure,co-operative approach,cloud computing,investment,groupware
Resource management,Social cloud,Economic model,Collaborative software,Computer science,Knowledge management,Utility computing,Management science,Converged infrastructure,Scalability,Cloud computing
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1060-3425
5
0.45
References 
Authors
16
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Christian Haas1191.74
Simon Caton215916.20
Kyle Chard351556.70
Christof Weinhardt4985141.98