Due to the development of information and communication technologies, it is difficult to handle the billions of connected machines. In this paper, to cope with the problem, we introduce machine social networks, where they freely follow each other and share common interests with their neighbors. We classify characteristics and describe required functionalities of socially connected machines. We also illustrate two examples; a twit-bot and maze scenario.
@article{arxiv.1312.5830,
title = {An Introduction to Socially Connected Machines: Characteristics and Applications},
author = {Taehyoung Shim and Dong Min Kim and Seong-Lyun Kim},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1312.5830},
year = {2013}
}