Virtual organization for computational intelligence

Abstract

Virtual Organizations are playing an important role by reducing the gap between humans and Information Technology. A Virtual Organization, another face of resource sharing orchestration, provides ease of access to globally dispersed users. Computational Intelligence is an active research area which focuses on the development of approaches for problem solving mimicking nature. In the last few years the Computational Intelligence community is striving hard to build an online community to share resources such as data, algorithms, human expertise, models and methods. Supporting this endeavor we propose a Virtual Organization for Computational Intelligence as solution. Existing Virtual Organizations are often fixed to a specific domain and so forth hard to extend. Thus, there is a strong need to establish a generic platform which is flexible and dynamic. The advantages are twofold, first to support tools fostering new computing paradigms, as Everything-as-a- Service (XaaS), and secondly, to create a powerful online community and resource sharing portal for the Computational Intelligence society. This chapter details the concepts about building a Virtual Organization from scratch in general and explains how it serves the Computational Intelligence community specifically. A use case of a Virtual Organization for Computational Intelligence as an E-Learning platform is presented for justification. The chapter also presents an alternative notion for user, subject, defining the human interaction from different perspectives in the context of a virtual community. © 2012 Springer Berlin Heidelberg.