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Social Clouds: Crowdsourcing Cloud Infrastructure

In: Crowdsourcing

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  • Kyle Chard

    (University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory)

  • Simon Caton

    (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

Abstract

Software crowdsourcing is becoming an increasingly viable model for creating production software addressing every aspect of the software development lifecycle. However, as software development processes become yet more complex requiring dedicated systems for development, testing, andDeployment deployment, software crowdsourcing projects must also acquire considerable infrastructure in order to facilitate development. We propose the use of an infrastructure crowdsourcing model, termed a Social Cloud, to facilitate a user-contributed cloud fabricUser-contributed cloud fabric on which software development services and systems can be hosted. Social Clouds are motivated by the needs of individuals or groups for specific resources or capabilities that can be made available by connected peers. Social Clouds leverage lessons learned through volunteer computing and crowdsourcing projects such as the willingness of individuals to make their resources available and offer their expertise altruistically for “good causes” or in exchange for other resources or payment. In this chapter we present the Social Cloud model and describe how it can be used to crowdsource software infrastructure.

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  • Kyle Chard & Simon Caton, 2015. "Social Clouds: Crowdsourcing Cloud Infrastructure," Progress in IS, in: Wei Li & Michael N. Huhns & Wei-Tek Tsai & Wenjun Wu (ed.), Crowdsourcing, edition 127, pages 191-217, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:prochp:978-3-662-47011-4_11
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-47011-4_11
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