Introduction Social Computing is a term that is gaining popularity in corporate and academic circles. In March 2007 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, announced a new Master‟s of Science in Information (MSI) specialization in „Social Computing‟. The impressive growth of social computing tools coupled with speculations of their potential organizational benefits has led companies like IBM and Mic...

Lately, many multi-agent systems (MAS) are designed as multi-modal systems [9, 15, 23, 22, 26, 28, 18]. Moreover, there are different techniques for combining logics, such as products, fibring, fusion, and modalisation, among others [1, 14, 16]. In this paper we focus on the combination of special-purpose logics for building “on demand” MAS. From these engineering point of view, among the most ...

In recent years there has been rapid growth in cloud computing and social networking technologies. Cloud computing shifts the computing resources to a third party, eliminating the need to purchase, configure and maintain those resources. With the incentive of lowered operational costs in software, hardware and human effort, many companies are considering the use of cloud services. Likewise, soc...