The practice of employing" the crowd" to help solve an organization's problems first became
popular in the business sector, and has since spread to public and not-for-profit …

Crowd sourcing is the generalized act of outsourcing tasks, traditionally performed by
employees or contractors, to a large group of Internet population (the wise crowd) by means …

Crowd sourcing is evolving as a distributed problem-solving and business production model
in recent years. In crowd sourcing paradigm, tasks are distributed to networked people to …

Crowdsourcing is a new paradigm that has influenced the businesses, emergency
management, collaboration and online interaction. The term crowd source means tapping …

With the rapid growth of mobile smartphone users, several commercial mobile companies
have exploited crowd sourcing as an effective approach to collect and analyze data, to …

Crowdsourcing refers to a distributed problem-solving model in which a crowd of undefined
size is engaged in the task of solving a complex problem through an open call. This novel …

Current participatory sensing approaches usually do not consider device carriers as
intelligent participants in sensing processes. However, modern mobile communication …

We present an attempt to engage social media networks, bringing the crowdsourcing model
into mobile environments. We introduce LogicCrowd, a declarative programming paradigm …

Crowdsourcing enables one to leverage the power of the crowd. Normally, it involves
utilizing humans for tasks that machines have difficulty performing. We propose a system …

This position paper for the workshop Crowd Work 2013 discusses some of the ethical
implications of crowd sourcing in general and of contest-based crowd design in particular …