The World Wide Web
A paper by Paul Smart and Nigel Shadbolt on the World Wide Web from an epistemological viewpoint. The authors discuss personalised searches, Social Machines, networks and trust/reliability.
Articles about Social Machines
Social Machines in Practice: Solutions, Stakeholders and Scopes
A paper by Clare Hooper, Brian Bailey, Hugh Glaser and James Hendler on social machines (systems where people and technology interact). The authors suggest a framework for thinking about social machines and discuss factors that might be considered when constructing them.
DNA: From Search to Observation Revisited
A paper by Ian Brown, Lisa Harris and Wendy Hall, describing the extension of a model to describe Social Machines. The new model includes external and non-linear factors and grouping and sequencing of processes.
A Streaming Real-Time Web Observatory Architecture for Monitoring the Health of Social Machines
A paper by Ramine Tinati, Xin Wang, Ian Brown, Thanassis Tiropanis and Wendy Hall on the challenges associated with real-time Web streams. The paper describes the architecture used in the Southampton Web Observatory to process real-time Web streams.
A Taxonomic Framework for Social Machines
Paul Smart, Elena Simperl and Nigel Shadbolt propose a working definition for Social Machines, describe their characteristics and discuss the future for research in this area.
Social Machines
An article on Social Machines in the Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, written by Paul Smart and Nigel Shadbolt.
Towards a classifcation framework for social machines
A paper on social machines by Nigel Shadbolt, Daniel Smith, Elena Simperl, Max van Kleek, Yang Yang and Wendy Hall. The concept of social machines is defined, the key features are described and a framework for classification is proposed.