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CrowdSWD: A Novel Framework for Crowdsourcing Software Development Inspired by the Concept of Biological Metaphor

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Crowdsourcing software development is a broad term that describes large-scale distributed systems that comprise many computing elements, each of which may have their own individual characteristics, objectives, and actions. Our society increasingly depends on such systems, in which collections of heterogeneous computing elements are tightly entangled with human and social structures to plan collective intelligence. The premise of this research is that existing frameworks for crowdsourcing software development are not powerful enough to cover large classes of aspects-relevant problems. To address this, we explored one instance of system development life cycle, which can be used to solve those problems. The outputs were in the form of (1) mechanisms for modeling the crowdsourcing software that empowers a crowd socially to solve complex problems that require effective management among participants with relevant abilities and limitations, (2) modeling supportive environments for crowdsourcing software, (3) modeling an adaptive engine that learns relevant characteristics of participants based on observations of their behavior and learned models, and (4) designing 34 heterogeneous computing elements that can be used in crowdsourcing software. A single experimental study, presented in this chapter, provides a richness of data and can lead to a deep understanding of a phenomenon in a single context.

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    Tarek A. Ali & Mervat H. Gheith

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Ali, T.A., Nasr, E.S., Gheith, M.H. (2017). CrowdSWD: A Novel Framework for Crowdsourcing Software Development Inspired by the Concept of Biological Metaphor. In: Mahmood, Z. (eds) Software Project Management for Distributed Computing. Computer Communications and Networks. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54325-3_8

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