Elements of software ecosystem early-stage design for collective intelligence systems

Authors:
Juergen Musil;Angelika Musil;Stefan Biffl
Affiliations:
Vienna University of Technology, Austria;Vienna University of Technology, Austria;Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Venue:
Proceedings of the 2013 International Workshop on Ecosystem Architectures
Year:
2013

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Abstract

User-contribution driven software service platforms like crowdsourcing and social media services represent an efficient way of aggregating and distributing knowledge. However, only little research has been reported on early-stage design of software ecosystems (SECOs) for software service platforms, in particular in the collective intelligence (CI) domain. In this work we analyze needs for CI-centered SECOs leading to new research challenges. We have identified self-organization and feedback mechanisms as essential characteristics in CI-centered SECOs and thus introduce design elements for structuring them properly at an early stage of design. We discuss the concept with a real-world use case from a widely used CI-centered SECO, Wikipedia. A major result is the successful mapping of the design elements to the specific SECO elements.