Author :
Fulu Li ; Lippman, A.
Author_Institution :
Media Lab., Massachusetts Inst. of Technol., Cambridge, MA, USA
Abstract :
We introduce community coding, where information systems meet social networks. Community coding is an emerging field of social computation and coding theory, which provides a method of aggregating resources from a community to maximize the sum of their utilities by allowing the community members to coordinate their contributions of resources. Community coding can be classified into two categories: (a) coding based on collective knowledge over aggregated community sources to maximize the efficiency; (b) coding based on collective contributory resources over aggregated community sources to minimize the possibility of the disruption of services. The ultimate objective is to harness and unleash the power of a community to better perform some tasks that one individual is not able to accomplish efficiently and effectively. We illustrate the principles and notions of community coding by real-life system examples.
Keywords :
encoding; information systems; knowledge management; resource allocation; social networking (online); social sciences computing; aggregated community sources; coding theory; collective contributory resources; collective knowledge; community coding; information systems; network coding; service disruption; social computation; social networks; source coding; Absorption; Excitons; Optical device fabrication; Optical scattering; Photonic band gap; Photovoltaic cells; Temperature measurement; Community Coding; Contributory Storage; Network Coding; Source Coding;
Conference_Titel :
Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), 2013 47th Annual Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-5237-6
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4673-5238-3
DOI :
10.1109/CISS.2013.6552281
