Social Services Computing: Concepts, Research Challenges, and Directions

This paper presents concepts, ecosystem, research challenges and directions of Social Services Computing. Social Services Computing is an emerging computing paradigm which sweeps through Social Computing, Internet of Things, Services Computing, and Cloud Computing. Physical things, computer systems and social individuals are connected together through dedicate and complex communication and control services that may belong to different individuals, organizations or active entities. These entities form social networks by interacting with each other. The main tasks of Social Services Computing include services classification and clustering, services migration, services recommendation, and services composition as well as services discovery and publishing in social context. We demonstrate a blueprint for Social Services Computing including its principles, ecosystem, and implementation by emphasizing social aspects of Services Computing based on massive Cyberspace. New business models and programming models are shaped in virtual of Social Services Computing paradigm.