Please distribute to others who may be interested... You are hereby invited to a seminar in our tenth interdisciplinary series on Evolution, Complexity and Cognition <http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/108> (ECCO 2013-2014)
Time: Friday Apr. 25, 14h-16h Place: *room D.1.07 * ------------------------------ *Crowdsourcing and Social Computing* Safwat Ibrahim <http://eg.linkedin.com/pub/safwat-ibrahim/5/799/8b7> (Etisalat, Cairo) Abstract: Social networks have grown rapidly in the last years and their usage has become very popular in our daily activities, which motivated many researchers to find out better methodologies and tools for analyzing the human behavior in the social networks in order to use this analysis in different applications such as achieving better customer experience and forecasting human behavior in certain situations. Additionally, enrich the tools and frameworks that facilitate people collaboration though the social networks. Crowdsourcing is rapidly evolving as a distributed problem solving and business production model in recent years. In a crowdsourcing system, a requester has to decide how to break down a task into several small tasks. A central challenge in crowdsourcing systems is how should tasks be designed and assigned to workers in order to induce good output from workers. This seminar discusses the different categories of crowdsourcing applications and addresses the research issues in this cutting edge research domain, such as task design and allocation, and how quality could be assured in crowdsourcing systems. Moreover, the seminar illustrates different successful crowdsourcing case-studies and initiatives that we performed in Egypt (like Zabatak and Morsi-meter). We built this crowdsourcing application as after 25th of January revolution the policemen disappeared from streets, which motivated me in collaboration with a group of engineers and researchers to start an initiative for a crowdsourcing application called Zabatak. It is developed using Ushahidi platform and aims to fight corruption and help people to collaborate in monitoring crimes. Analyzing the big data in social networks and providing both real-time and offline analysis tools is highly needed for decision making. The session will demonstrate the different platforms and technologies used in storing the distributed graph databases and building real-time analysis for the stored data. Also, it provides different case studies that we performed for analyzing human behavior and correlating it to their geographic location (spatial analysis) using Ushahidi crowdsourcing platform. The global brain can be defined as the distributed intelligence emerging from the network of all people on this planet connected via the Internet and related technologies. Since the world is moving toward the Global Brain (GB) model, the session provides an overview for the GB model. Also it illustrates the architecture for the challprop simulation program. Finally, it proposes different recommendations categorized into different areas (process related, code related, and the model related enhancements) as a future research in the GB research area. ------------------------------ Upcoming Seminars *May 2 * Mixel Kiemen (ECCO, GBI) *Design thinking for Evolutionary cybernetics: introducing artificial evolution by sensory-‐motoric workspace * *May 9 * Cliff Joslyn *Modeling Global Control Systems: Formal Approaches to Understand What a Global Brain Could Be * *May 16 * Abraham Bernstein (University of Zurich) *Programming the Global Brain - Implications for Computer Science* *May 23 * Shima Beigi *A generic framework for resilience of complex adaptive systems* *May 30* Mehdi Moussaid (Max Planck Institute for Human Development) *Social influence and collective opinion dynamics* *June 6* Petter Braathen *Linking Complexity Science and Strategic Management* *June 13* Alfonso Molina *June 20 * Piet Holbrouck (ECCO) *Problem Solving and Paradigm Shifts* *June 27* Viktoras Veitas & David R. Weinbaum (Weaver) (ECCO,GBI) See also the ECCO/GBI calendar<https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=azMyN252aWluM2JoMnU3MXY5OGt2ZzliOGdAZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ>. You can add this calendar to your calendar application throughhere<https://www.google.com/calendar/ical/k327nviin3bh2u71v98kvg9b8g%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics> More info about the ECCO seminar program: http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/108 -- Evo Evo Busseniers - Seminar Coordinator ECCO Group (VUB) <http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/1> Email: [email protected] Website: http://vub.academia.edu/EvoBusseniers<http://be.linkedin.com/in/weaver9/>
