Self-Organizing Community System for Information Consolidation
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Solution Overview
Problem
The proliferation of Web 2.0 has led to information overload, where useful content is buried beneath a vast amount of useless information, necessitating effective filtering, verification, and consolidation to be effectively utilized.
Innovation Solution
A self-organizing community (SOC) and self-organizing wiki (SoWiki) system that employs a hierarchical, multi-layered structure for information consolidation through democratic decision-making and progressive election, allowing members to create, update, and filter content, thereby addressing information overload and minimizing costs.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If Web 2.0 enables participation from all users, then information distribution and communication improve, but information overload occurs and useful content is buried
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the community into hierarchical layers with different roles and responsibilities. Users are organized into units that can filter and process information at each level, preventing information overload from reaching individual users while maintaining broad participation.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces intermediary entities (units, leaders, and filtering mechanisms) between individual users and the overall information stream. These intermediaries selectively process and pass along information, ensuring useful content rises to visibility while filtering out noise.
2Reliability
If information consolidation is performed centrally, then information quality improves, but system complexity and costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides information consolidation into multiple distributed units operating at different hierarchical levels. Each unit performs filtering and consolidation locally, then passes results upward, eliminating the need for a single complex central system while maintaining information quality.
Solution Approach 2:
The system adds a hierarchical dimension to information processing, organizing units into layers from bottom to top. This dimensional structure allows distributed processing to achieve centralization benefits without the associated complexity and cost.
3Productivity
If a hierarchical multi-layer structure is implemented, then information filtering efficiency improves, but system organization complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The hierarchical structure is designed to be dynamic and adaptive, with units and leaders forming organically based on community needs. This dynamic formation reduces organizational complexity while maintaining filtering efficiency, as the structure evolves rather than being rigidly imposed.
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables self-organization where users automatically form units and elect leaders based on their interests and contributions. This self-service approach to structure formation simplifies organization while maintaining the hierarchical filtering efficiency needed for productive information processing.
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AI summary
The invention provides self-organization methodologies and system for internet users to build web-based organizational hierarchical structure that is constituent of units within which direct and sufficient communication can be fulfilled. Each unit is administrated autonomously through the democratic-decision process, and processes information internally. The members of unit can designate or replace its leader anytime though election; the leader elect of a unit will then become a member of its direct upper unit in the structure, representing its unit to participate in the management and election of upper unit and to bring the consolidated results of its unit to the upper unit for further consolidation; recursively, a hierarchical structure is to form from bottom to upper progressively, and to produce different level of end products at different layer. Taking the advantage of self-organization methodologies, the SOC & SOwiki platform and systems are to be designed and implemented to support various applications of SOC & SOwiki structures that are created to satisfy different social needs or business models.