Three-C Framework for Social-Aware Resource Sharing

This article presents a communication-cooperation-collaboration (Three-C) based framework of social cloud that incorporates a socio-technical perspective. One might look at the variety of reported views and perspectives on the social cloud and see that it can serve as a special kind of computing paradigm. But, the overall concept of the social cloud is muddied by so many divergent perspectives discussed in the literature. Therefore, there is no clarity and unified view of the social cloud. Our effort unifies the concept of social cloud, making it easier to see its promise and offering a path towards its continued development and deployment in enterprise and academia. Further, this article discusses social cloud implications in business settings.