[P2P-F] QLectives (Quality Collectives)

Mon Sep 24 13:39:44 CEST 2012

http://www.qlectives.eu/
also see :
http://www.tribler.org/trac/wiki/whatIsTribler

QLectives (Quality Collectives)

[image: QlectivesLeaflet]<http://www.qlectives.eu/docs/qlectives_leaflet_a5_Final_Web.pdf>
*QLectives* is a project bringing together top social modelers,
peer-to-peer engineers and physicists to *design and deploy next generation
self-organising socially intelligent information systems.* The project aims
to combine three recent trends within information systems:

   - *Social networks* - in which people link to others over the Internet
   to gain value and facilitate collaboration (think of
Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/>
   )
   - *Peer production* - in which people collectively produce informational
   products and experiences without traditional hierarchies or market
   incentives (think Wikipedia <http://www.wikipedia.org/>)
   - *Peer-to-Peer systems* - in which software clients running on user
   machines distribute media and other information without a central server or
   administrative control (think of BitTorrent <http://www.bittorrent.com/>)

*QLectives* aims to bring these together to form Quality Collectives, i.e.
functional decentralised communities that self-organise and self-maintain
for the benefit of the people who comprise them. We aim to generate theory
at the social level, design algorithms and deploy prototypes targeted
towards two application domains:

   - *QMedia* - an interactive peer-to-peer media distribution system
   (including live streaming), providing fully distributed social filtering
   and recommendation for quality (think of social television
2.0<http://www.view2gether.com/>
   )

[image: TriblerLogo]

   - *QScience* - a distributed platform for scientists allowing them to
   locate or form new communities and quality reviewing mechanisms, which are
   transparent and promote quality (think ofSlashdot <http://slashdot.org/> for
   any particular discipline or sub-discipline)

[image: logo_EconoPhysics]

*QLectives<http://cordis.europa.eu/fetch?CALLER=PROJ_ICT&ACTION=D&CAT=PROJ&RCN=89031>
* is supported by the European Commission 7th Framework Programme
(FP7)<http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/> for
Research and Technological Development under the Information and
Communication Technologies Theme, Future and Emerging Technologies
(FET)<http://cordis.europa.eu/fet-proactive/> Proactive,
Call 3: ICT-2007.8.4 Science of Complex Systems for socially intelligent
ICT (COSI-ICT).
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