Transcript Social Networks and Cyberinfrastructure

Social Networks and
Cyberinfrastructure
Munindar P. Singh
[email protected]
http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/faculty/mpsingh/
Personal Background
Computer scientist who values insights from studies of social
systems and organizations
• B.Tech., IIT-Delhi, CS&E; Ph.D., U Texas, Austin
• Professor, Computer Science, NCSU
• EIC Emeritus, IEEE Internet Computing
• MEB, J. Autonomous Agents & MultiAgent Systems; J.
Web Semantics
• Cochair, International Joint Conference on Autonomous
Agents & MultiAgent Systems, 2005
• NSF support: DST + ITR (past IDM)
Referral Systems and Networks
• KM going beyond document management
• Developed a prototype adaptive referral system for
use by people, 1998-2003
• Studied effectiveness for searching experts
• Studied emergent structural properties contrasting
with static studies of Web structure and
recommender systems, 1999-present
– Quality inversely related with clustering
– Distributions of degree and authority under various
behaviors
– Emergence of communities
Architectural Power of SNs
• SNs are the right metaphor for dealing with open
systems
– Changing membership and relationships
– Autonomous parties of unknown trustworthiness
• SNs provide meaning, assessment of possibilities,
basis for trust
• SNs support service selection and system
configuration
• Computing challenge: automate the appropriate
parts to improve productivity while still leaving a
window for human insight