An Engine for Local Communities Sharing Services, Content and Experiences

The trend of social networking has put in evidence the needs of user in collaborating and sharing information. Most of the business models for those SN are very challenging and may be hardly scalable. Moreover, users prefer to keep under control their content and to have at home personalized views of their preferred services. Thus local community services and content management systems may be of interest to be developed in contrast to service provider that try to monopolize all services for a given user, similarly to the TV. In this paper, we present LOCUSGENS architecture and solution and in particular the features and the capabilities of the intelligent local Autonomous Community Manager which includes a rule based systems to cope with the harmonization and concertation of a number of third party services.