Formiche virtuali o virtuose? Verso un’etica dell’accesso

Castellucci, Paola Formiche virtuali o virtuose? Verso un’etica dell’accesso., 2016 . In Convegno AIB CILW 2016. La rinascita delle risorse dell’informazione: granularità, interoperabilità e integrazione dei dati, Biblioteca nazionale centrale di Roma, October 21, 2016. (Unpublished) [Presentation]

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English abstract

ACO – Ant Colonies Optimization is a collaborative information retrieval technique, belonging to the wider area of AI (more specifically, swarm Intelligence). ACO aims at improving search engines’ performances by exploiting users’ behavior. Bookmarks, comments and tagging (i.e. ‘like’) are processed in an algorithm which makes the search engine work in order to recommend the ‘best way’ to users with similar information needs. Postings and comments are the ‘pherormones’ left by previous users throughout information hunting. However, the metaphor of ant colonies foraging for food stimulates further questions. In fact, the optimization of information seeking could reveal a controlling attitude, urging everybody to seek for the same target, minimizing individual choice, freedom and awareness. Could ‘ants’ be easily exploited by a single-minded ideological thinking or by a market-oriented society? Indeed that was what Norbert Weaner predicted in far-off 1950.

Item type:	Presentation
Keywords:	semantic Web, ACO technology
Subjects:	I. Information treatment for information services > IF. Information transfer: protocols, formats, techniques. I. Information treatment for information services > IG. Information presentation: hypertext, hypermedia. I. Information treatment for information services > IL. Semantic web I. Information treatment for information services > IM. Open data L. Information technology and library technology > LC. Internet, including WWW.
Depositing user:	AIB CILW 2016 Conference
Date deposited:	10 Nov 2016 08:38
Last modified:	10 Nov 2016 08:38
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/10760/30233

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