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Initial thoughts
about existence in
the Web
Philoweb 2011Thessaloniki, 5/10/2011
Michalis Vafopoulosvafopoulos.org
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Preface Web needs science & philosophyScience should “pay back” the Web This Not a philosopher’s approach
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Main issues
Discussing existence in the Web through a simple framework
• more complex reality• Web-centric abstractions• Linking, virtualization • networks, URI
(work in progress, few things fixed, comments are welcome)
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Outline ① The easy part: criticism ② The hard part: build concepts & models③ The Being-Query framework: network
inside!④ Introducing the Web: Web Beings ⑤ The Being – Query framework expanded⑥ How can this framework be useful?– Understand & compare diverse models– Expand existing & create new concepts – Initiate interesting questions
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The easy part: criticism “Web …resource” • economic and ecological connotations– human, natural, renewable etc. – land, labor, and capital– 12 appearances in Economics classification
(JEL)– http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource
not a single word about Internet or Web
thing”• Not descriptive, too general, multiple meanings
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The hard part: build concepts
Step 1: definition & assumptions• A Being exists if and only if there is a
communication channel linking to it. (possible update based on HH)
• A Query is the phrasing of a question by a Being, usually in terms of a code. The questions are messages expressed as sequences of symbols in the query language. Beings have Queries that address them to other Beings.
up to now: an abstract model that could be described by a weighted network of Beings (not very useful!)
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… and models
Step 2: building the framework• Users, are Beings that can “consciously”
form Queries.• Queries are organized in Topics (tractable
and processable).
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Topics
Queries
Users
Beings
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The Being-Query framework: network inside!
A quad network: contraction of 4 interconnected networks
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Queries
Beings
Topics
Users
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Introducing the Web: Web Beings
Beings that can be communicated through the Web. URI: The minimal description of invariant
elements in communication through the Web.
Directly connected to existence (birth, access, navigate, edit & death of a Web being)
Other characteristics of Web beings may change in time.
A change in URI means the death of existing & birth of a new WB.
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The Being – Query framework expanded
“Teleportation”, Search Engines, relevance feedback, …Search Engine: get as inputs Queries and produce collections of Web beings
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Topics
Queries
Web Queries
Users
Web Users
Beings
Web Beings
“teleportation”
Search engine
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How can this framework be useful?
Networks facilitate understanding, measuring, modeling, comparing, deciding & forming policy when connections matter and today matter more than ever…
A. Understand & compare existing models
B. Expand existing & create new concepts C. Initiate interesting questions
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A. Understand & compare existing models
① Computer science [e.g. User models, TF (single: Web)]
② Network science [e.g. Barabasi (single: Web)]③ Economic modeling (e.g.)– Stegeman (dual: Users-Web)
– Papadimitriou et al (triad: Users-Queries, Topics, Web)
– Katona-Sarvary (triad: Navigators-Users, Editors-Web, Topics)
– Not yet published (quad-network models)
Possible extensions in DSS, ERP, Bus. Intelligence
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B. Expand existing & create new concepts
• Existing: e.g. Digital economy, ICT4D, internet of things,…
• New: e.g. Web goodsWeb beings with economic valueWeb UsersWeb economy
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Web Users and economy
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C. Initiate interesting questions
Incorporates directly the relation and co-evolution between online and physical world• What is the quality & quantity of this
relation?• Rethink influential concepts under the
proposed framework: Embodiment, artifactualization, network individualism, privatised spaces and peer production.
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Thank you!
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Michalis Vafopoulosvafopoulos.org
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Supplement
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Web Science Subject Categorization
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A.GeneralB.Web History and MethodologyC.Web TechnologiesD.Web AnalysisE. Web Society
http://webscience.org/2010/wssc.html
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Web economy
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Web users
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