Crowdsourcing enables one to leverage on the intelligence and wisdom of potentially large
groups of individuals toward solving problems. Common problems approached with …

Voluntary work is indispensable in nearly every area of today's society, eg, service activities
in health care or emergencies. Not least because of this omnipresence of volunteering …

Data comes in many forms and one dimension to consider and compare differing data
formats is the amount of structure contained therein. The more structure a dataset has the …

Social workflows pervade peoples׳ everyday life. Whenever a group of persons works
together on a challenging or multifaceted task, a social workflow begins. Unlike traditional …

A human computation system can be viewed as a distributed system in which the processors
are humans, called workers. Such systems harness the cognitive power of a group of …

There is growing interest in using crowds of human workers to perform information
processing tasks that are difficult for machines. At IBM, we have deployed a large internal …

Internet-based, large-scale systems provide the technical foundation for massive online
collaboration forms such as social networks, crowdsourcing, content sharing, or source code …

In recent years, the development of information technology has reached a new level of
evolution. It should be noted, however, that digitalization and digital transformation are not …

The business artifact (aka business entity) approach to modeling and implementing
business operations and processes is based on a holistic marriage of data and process and …

The recent two decades have witnessed the emergence of large‐scale, interaction‐intensive
systems. A system's provided user‐centric communication and coordination mechanisms …