Blog of Collective Intelligence: A source document for Collectiv. The Growth of Social Software. Social computation and creativity » Blog Archive » What is socia. A panel on social search at SES Chicago tried to define social search more precisely yesterday. Chris Sherman suggested the following definition: social search are “wayfinding tools informed by human judgment.” Further discussion of this definition can be found here and here. I am an evolutionary computation researcher and see the striking resemblance of this new definition to the definition of an interactive genetic algorithm.
An interactive genetic algorithm (IGA) is defined as a genetic algorithm informed by human judgement. Genetic algorithm itself is a search procedure inspired by the Darwinian model of evolution. So you can see from here the tight connection between social search as defined above and IGA. However, similarities don’t end here. Similar things are now happening with social search. Social search is a search algorithm where some functions are outsourced to humans. IGA Definition. Internet forum - Wikipedia, the free encyc.
An Internet forum powered by phpBB FUDforum, another Internet forum software package. An Internet forum, or message board, is an online discussion site where people can hold conversations in the form of posted messages.[1] They differ from chat rooms in that messages are often longer than one line of text, and are at least temporarily archived. Also, depending on the access level of a user or the forum set-up, a posted message might need to be approved by a moderator before it becomes visible. Forums have a specific set of jargon associated with them; e.g. a single conversation is called a "thread", or topic. A discussion forum is hierarchical or tree-like in structure: a forum can contain a number of subforums, each of which may have several topics.
Within a forum's topic, each new discussion started is called a thread, and can be replied to by as many people as so wish. History Internet forums are prevalent in several developed countries. Structure User groups Moderators Administrator Post.