Co-operative Infrastructures: An Economic Model for Providing Infrastructures for Social Cloud Computing

Haas, Christian, Caton, Simon, Chard, Kyle and Weinhardt, Christof (2013) Co-operative Infrastructures: An Economic Model for Providing Infrastructures for Social Cloud Computing. In: 46th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2013. IEEE, pp. 729-738. ISBN 9780769548920

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Abstract

Social Cloud Computing is an emerging online collaboration paradigm which is characteristic of many socially oriented electronic platforms. The operation of such a platform requires computational infrastructure to facilitate the platform itself as well as the services enabling its basic operation. While this infrastructure currently requires capital-intensive investments, we believe it is possible, and even advantageous, to use a co-operative model where the platform (i.e. its computational infrastructure) is provided by the users themselves. In this paper, we define a formal economic model for a co-operative infrastructure in the context of a socially oriented platform and analyze (through simulation) the model with respect to its feasibility and scalability. Using Social Clouds as a use case, we demonstrate in several scenarios that the co-operative approach does not only have advantages over dedicated infrastructures, but also is a particularly suitable model for providing core infrastructure in social (computing) platforms.

Item Type:	Book Section
Subjects:	T Technology > T Technology (General) > Information Technology > Cloud computing
Divisions:	School of Computing > Staff Research and Publications
Depositing User:	Caoimhe Ní Mhaicín
Date Deposited:	27 Apr 2016 12:29
Last Modified:	27 Apr 2016 12:29
URI:	https://norma.ncirl.ie/id/eprint/2161

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