The article presents example of gamification approaches. Examples which show that it is possible to combine incentive mechanisms from games into win-win situations for both, the consumer and the company.

The handbook explains the term collective intelligence and why studying collective intelligence is important nowadays.Furthermore, it gives examples of collective intelligence in different environments as for instance: business organizations, computer science/A.I. and biology. The handbook deals with measuring collective intelligence and associated influence factors and more interesting, it lists several factors which either facilitate collective intelligence (e.g. diversity, incentives for contribution) or inhibit it (e.g. self-interest and the free-rider problem, implementation issues).

More information can be found here.

Social gaming is hence not only a playground for web geeks, but also for casual gamers. Social gaming, a new and successful entrant to the gaming market, has the potential to produce a new revenue stream which comes directly from the its end users. Virtual goods/currencies which are a typically part of the social games are best examples which were able to turn casual gamer experience into huge business for startup-enterprises.

The study also shows that 10% of respondents had already spent money by playing social games in their past and other 11% have plans to do so in the future. In 2009, users spent $2.2 billion for buying virtual goods and experts estimate that the number will raise up to $6 billion till 2013.

It is also interesting to see that social gamers tend to be of older age and female (53% women), whereas the traditional gaming sector is dominated by male players. Other research reinforces this outcome and indicates that social gamers are more likely female and their age is around 43 years. Moreover, 35% of the social gamers have no previous video-gaming experience.

Facebook turns out to be the most popular platform for social games. 83% of respondents already played games there, with an average of six different social game titles played per player.

See http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/underreview for the papers currently under review.

For more information about the review process, see http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/reviewers .

For more information about the journal, see http://www.semantic-web-journal.net

Pascal Hitzler
Krzysztof Janowicz
Editors-in-Chief

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Prof. Dr. Pascal Hitzler
Dept. of Computer Science, Wright State University, Dayton, OH
pascal@pascal-hitzler.de http://www.knoesis.org/pascal/
Semantic Web Textbook: http://www.semantic-web-book.org
Semantic Web Journal: http://www.semantic-web-journal.net

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Semantic Web – Interoperability, Usability, Applicability

Publisher: IOS Press
ISSN: 1570-0844

http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/

Scope

The journal Semantic Web – Interoperability, Usability, Applicability brings together researchers from various fields which share the vision and need for more effective and meaningful ways to share information across agents and services on the future internet and elsewhere. As such, Semantic Web technologies shall support the seamless integration of data, on-the-fly composition and interoperation of Web services, as well as more intuitive search engines. The semantics – or meaning – of information, however, cannot be defined without a context, which makes personalization, trust, and provenance core topics for Semantic Web research. New retrieval paradigms, user interfaces, and visualization techniques have to unleash the power of the Semantic Web and at the same time hide its complexity from the user. Based on this vision, the journal welcome contributions ranging from theoretical and foundational research over methods and tools to descriptions of concrete ontologies and applications in all areas. We especially welcome papers which add a social, spatial, and temporal dimension to Semantic Web research, as well as application-oriented papers making use of formal semantics.
The journal is peer-reviewed and will be published quarterly.
IOS Press is a leading international publisher of scientific books and journals in many fields including computer & communications sciences and especially also the Semantic Web.

Submissions

The journal invites submissions on all topics related to the Semantic Web. Submissions can fall in one of the following categories.

* Full papers – containing original research results. Results previously published at conferences may be submitted as extended versions.

* Survey articles – full-length papers surveying the state of the art on core Semantic Web topics.

* Descriptions of ontologies – short papers describing ontology modeling and creation efforts.

* Application reports – short papers describing deployed applications of Semantic Web technologies.

* Reports on tools and systems – short papers describing mature Semantic Web related tools and systems.

Review process

The journal uses an open and transparent review process. Submitted manuscripts are posted on the journal homepage and are publicly available. In addition to solicited reviews, public reviews can be made by any researcher. Reviews and review responses are posted on the journal homepage. All reviewers will be acknowledged in the final printed version. While we encourage reviewers to participate in the open and transparent review process, it is also be possible to submit anonymous reviews.

Editorial Board

Editors-in-Chief:

Pascal Hitzler, Wright State University, Dayton, OH, USA
Krzysztof Janowicz, The Pennsylvania State University, PA, USA

Board of Editors:

Claudia d’Amato, Università degli Studi di Bari, Italy
Sören Auer, Universität Leipzig, Germany
Lora Aroyo, Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Boyan Brodaric, Geological Survey of Canada, Canada
Philipp Cimiano, Universität Bielefeld, Germany
Oscar Corcho, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Bernardo Cuenca-Grau, Oxford University, UK
Michel Dumontier, Carleton University, Canada
Mark Gahegan, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Aldo Gangemi, ISTC-CNR Rome, Italy
Giancarlo Guizzardi, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil
Manfred Hauswirth, University of Galway, Ireland
Tom Heath, Talis, UK
Rinke Hoekstra, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Andreas Hotho, Universität Würzburg, Germany
Eero Hyvönen, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Werner Kuhn, University of Muenster, Germany
Thomas Lukasiewicz, Oxford University, UK
Martin Raubal, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Marta Sabou, The Open University, UK
Christoph Schlieder, University of Bamberg, Germany
Paulo Pinheiro da Silva, The University of Texas at El Paso, USA
Jie Tang, Tsinghua University Beijing, China
Kunal Verma, Accenture, USA

Contact

Journal website: http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/

Contact the Editors-in-Chief:
Pascal Hitzler: pascal.hitzler@wright.edu
Krzysztof Janowicz: jano@psu.edu

As stated on the OAC’s Web site: 

Annotating is a pervasive element of scholarly practice for both the humanist and the scientist. It is a method by which scholars organize existing knowledge and facilitate the creation and sharing of new knowledge. It is used by individual scholars when reading as an aid to memory, to add commentary, and to classify. It can facilitate shared editing, scholarly collaboration, and pedagogy. Over time annotations can have scholarly value in their own right. Yet scholars remain dissatisfied with the options available for annotating digital resources. Scholars wanting to annotate have to learn different annotation clients for different content repositories, have no easy way to integrate annotations made on different systems or created by colleagues using other tools, and are often limited to simplistic and constrained models of annotation. The importance of annotating as a scholarly practice coupled with the real-world limitations of existing practices and tools supporting annotation of digital content has had a retarding effect on the growth of digital scholarship and the level of digital resource use by scholars.

The overarching goals of this project (consisting of multiple phases) are:

• To facilitate the emergence of a Web and Resource-centric interoperable annotation environment that allows leveraging annotations across the boundaries of annotation clients, annotation servers, and content collections. To this end, interoperability specifications will be devised.
• To demonstrate through implementations an interoperable annotation environment enabled by the interoperability specifications in settings characterized by a variety of annotation client/server environments, content collections, and scholarly use cases.
• To seed widespread adoption by deploying robust, production-quality applications conformant with the interoperable annotation environment in ubiquitous and specialized services, tools, and content used by scholars — e.g.: Zotero, AXE, LORE, Co-Annotea, Pliny; JSTOR, AustLit, MONK.

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