Combination of social machines and service-oriented relationships
International Journal of Development Research
Combination of social machines and service-oriented relationships
Received 14th August, 2020; Received in revised form 21st September, 2020; Accepted 20th October, 2020; Published online 24th November, 2020
Copyright © 2020, Brunno Wagner Lemos de Souza and Silvio Romero de Lemos Meira. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The dissemination of the Web as a software development platform has led to a combination of computational and social elements to deal with the complexity of existing services and operations on the network, known as Social Machines. Social Machines establish relationships between people and machines through different views of relationships and their constraints. The role of Social Machines has changed the understanding of the nature of computing in complex operations and services, increasing the interactivity and connectivity of applications, collaborative platforms, and social networks. In this research, possibilities of interactions between Social Machines from the perspective of service-oriented relationships are presented, using the method based on Design Science Research (DSR). Given the type of relationship established in this research, some existing characteristics of architectural styles that can be used for communication between machines are highlighted, and the results are expected to bring, in a certain way, a set of perspectives of the service-oriented relationship between social machines.