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<tbody style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><tr style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><td valign="top" colspan="2" style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><a href="http://www.qlectives.eu/docs/qlectives_leaflet_a5_Final_Web.pdf" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(170,20,40)"><img src="http://www.qlectives.eu/images/stories/qlectives/qlectives_leaflet_a5_Final_Web.jpg" border="0" alt="QlectivesLeaflet" title="QlectivesLeaflet" width="120" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0pt none; float: right; "></a><strong class="imp" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(34,80,149)">QLectives</strong>�is a project bringing together top social modelers, peer-to-peer engineers and physicists to <b><i><font color="#000099" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">design and deploy next generation self-organising socially intelligent information systems.</font></i></b> The project aims to combine three recent trends within information systems:</p>
<ul style="margin:0px;padding:0px;list-style:circle inside"><li style="margin:0px 0px 5px;padding:0px"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px">Social networks</strong>�- in which people link to others over the Internet to gain value and facilitate collaboration (think of�<a class="external text" href="http://www.facebook.com/" title="http://www.facebook.com/" rel="nofollow" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(170,20,40)">Facebook</a>)</li>
<li style="margin:0px 0px 5px;padding:0px"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px">Peer production</strong>�- in which people collectively produce informational products and experiences without traditional hierarchies or market incentives (think�<a class="external text" href="http://www.wikipedia.org/" title="http://www.wikipedia.org/" rel="nofollow" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(170,20,40)">Wikipedia</a>)</li>
<li style="margin:0px 0px 5px;padding:0px"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px">Peer-to-Peer systems</strong>�- in which software clients running on user machines distribute media and other information without a central server or administrative control (think of�<a class="external text" href="http://www.bittorrent.com/" title="http://www.bittorrent.com/" rel="nofollow" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(170,20,40)">BitTorrent</a>)</li>
</ul><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><strong class="imp" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(34,80,149)">QLectives</strong>�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:</p>
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<li style="margin:0px 0px 5px;padding:0px"><strong class="imp" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(34,80,149)">QMedia</strong>�- an interactive peer-to-peer media distribution system (including live streaming), providing fully distributed social filtering and recommendation for quality (think of�<a href="http://www.view2gether.com/" title="http://www.view2gether.com/" rel="nofollow" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(170,20,40)">social television 2.0</a>)</li>
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</td></tr><tr style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><td style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><ul style="margin:0px;padding:0px;list-style:circle inside"><li style="margin:0px 0px 5px;padding:0px"><strong class="imp" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(34,80,149)">QScience</strong>�- a distributed platform for scientists allowing them to locate or form new communities and quality reviewing mechanisms, which are transparent and promote quality (think of<a href="http://slashdot.org/" title="http://slashdot.org/" rel="nofollow" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(170,20,40)">Slashdot</a>�for any particular discipline or sub-discipline)</li>
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</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><a href="http://cordis.europa.eu/fetch?CALLER=PROJ_ICT&ACTION=D&CAT=PROJ&RCN=89031" target="_blank" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(170,20,40)">QLectives</a></strong>�is supported by the European Commission 7th Framework Programme<a href="http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/" target="_blank" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(170,20,40)">�(FP7)</a>�for Research and Technological Development under the Information and Communication Technologies Theme, Future and Emerging Technologies<a href="http://cordis.europa.eu/fet-proactive/" target="_blank" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(170,20,40)">�(FET)</a>�Proactive, Call 3: ICT-2007.8.4 Science of Complex Systems for socially intelligent ICT (COSI-ICT).</p>
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