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Exploring Requirements for Multipurpose Crowd Computing Framework

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Crowd computing is a common name for variety of methods to solve problems with a help of large, undefined groups of people communicating via Internet. It is becoming widely used nowadays, but there still are many questions about how to effectively program distributed scalable systems, employing human information processing abilities. Crowd computing frameworks described in the literature often focus only on several unique features leaving other almost without attention, making it hard to render a systematic view of all the aspects of the design. The goal of this paper is to collect and analyze all the requirements for crowd computing frameworks that drove the development of these frameworks recently. The united and unified set of requirements is meant to provide a basis for further development of crowd computing frameworks and applications and, at the same time, it can serve as a basis for comparison of that kind of products.

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The research was partially supported by projects funded by grants # 13-07-00271, # 14-07-00345, # 14-07-00363 of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, project 213 (program 8) of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences, project # 2.2 of the basic research program “Intelligent information technologies, system analysis and automation” of the Nanotechnology and Information Technology Department of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and Grant 074-U01 of the Government of the Russian Federation.

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Smirnov, A., Ponomarev, A. (2016). Exploring Requirements for Multipurpose Crowd Computing Framework. In: Celesti, A., Leitner, P. (eds) Advances in Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing. ESOCC 2015. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 567. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33313-7_23

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