2013/04/04 by Carlos Gershenson, Gershenson, Carlos
Computer Science · Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO) #F.1.1 #FOS: Computer and information sciences #FOS: Physical sciences #H.1.1 #H.1.2 #Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC) #Information Theory (cs.IT) #Social and Information Networks (cs.SI) #cs.HC #cs.IT #cs.SI #math.IT #nlin.AO
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1304.1428
9 pages, 3 figures. Draft of a chapter to be published in Michelucci, P. (Ed.) Handbook of Human Computation, Springer
arxiv created 2013/05/24 · arxiv updated 2013/05/27
In this chapter, concepts related to information and computation are reviewed in the context of human computation. A brief introduction to information theory and different types of computation is given. Two examples of human computation systems, online social networks and Wikipedia, are used to illustrate how these can be described and compared in terms of information and computation.