This chapter examines the area of social computing and its implications for electronic government (e -government). Social computing is a broad term that refers to different products and services that supports human interaction in a computer mediated environment. Terms such as online communities, peer networking, and social software have overlapping meanings with social computing (Parameswaran a...

Social computing and online communities are changing the fundamental way people share information and communicate with each other. Social computing focuses on how users may have more autonomy to express their ideas and participate in social exchanges in various ways, one of which may be peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing. Given the greater risk of opportunistic behavior by malicious or criminal co...

Scope and applications Early on, social-computing studies focused on technological and user acceptance issues surrounding computer-supported collaborative work and groupware. In the last 10 years, the scope of socialcomputing research and practice has expanded tremendously with the adoption of Web and mobile technologies and with the virtualization of many facets of everyday life. From a method...

Social networks are the ‘connections’ that individuals utilise through various modes of communication to conduct their work. These communications come in the form of email, instant messaging, phone calls, wikis, blogs, face-to-face interactions, etc. These connections make up the central nervous system of information intensive organisations. The information that workers use to analyse, explore,...

This paper reports work regarding the design, development and evaluation of a surface computing application to support collaborative decision making.. The domainindependent application, so called Ideas Mapping, builds on the principle of Affinity Diagramming to allow participants to analyze a problem and brainstorm around possible solutions while they actively construct a consensus artifact a t...

Social computing can be broadly defined as computational facilitation of social studies and human social dynamics as well as design and use of information and communication technologies that consider social context. Novel social services and applications developed based on social computing have profoundly affected nowadays people’s life. However, as an emerging research field, it gathers numero...

In this paper, the literature on social computing is discussed. First social computing and its applications will be shown. Then a survey of existing social computing systems are examined. Finally a description of the Dog programming language.

Fog computing, shifting intelligence and resources from the remote cloud to edge networks, has the potential of providing low-latency for the communication from sensing data sources to users. For the objects from the Internet of Things (IoT) to the cloud, it is a new trend that the objects establish social-like relationships with each other, which efficiently brings the benefits of developed so...