AN EXPERIMENT IN SOCIAL SCIENCE

An Experiment in Social Search

Social search is an approach to Web search that attempts to offer communities of like-minded individuals more targeted search services, based on the search behaviour of their peers, bringing together ideas from Web search, social networking and personalization. In this paper we describe the I-SPY architecture for social search and present the results of a recent live-user evaluation that highli...

An Experiment on Prediction Markets in Science

Prediction markets are powerful forecasting tools. They have the potential to aggregate private information, to generate and disseminate a consensus among the market participants, and to provide incentives for information acquisition. These market functionalities can be very valuable for scientific research. Here, we report an experiment that examines the compatibility of prediction markets wit...

Problem Families: An Experiment in Social Rehabilitation

An Agent-based e-Science Experiment Builder

In this paper we demonstrate the use of agent technology to assist in the construction and enactment of e-Science experiments. Our approach is founded on the adaptation of an agent protocol language to perform composition of web services. We present a definition of the language, and show how it can be used to express e-Science experiments. We also describe a tool, called MagentA, which allows e...

Animal Rights Consideration is a Necessity in Conducting an Experiment