Advances in Intelligence and Security Informatics

Chapter 6

Social Computing in ISI A Synthetic View

With the advance of Internet and Web technologies, the increasing accessibility of computer resources and mobile devices, the prevalence of rich media contents, and the ensuing social, economic and cultural changes, computing technology and applications have evolved quickly over the past decade. They now go beyond personal computing, facilitating collaboration and social interactions in general. As such, social computing, a new paradigm of computing and technology development, has become a central theme across a number of information and communication technology (ICT) fields. It has become a hot topic attracting broad interest not only from researchers but also technologists, software and online ...