In any collaborative system, cooperation and conflicts exist together. While in some cases
these conflicts improve the output, they also lead to increased overhead. This requires …

Quality scientific inquiries depend on access to data distributed over the entire globe. Linked
open data (LOD) and FAIRness play major roles in ensuring access to data that scientists …

The article studies the role of the University of Architecture and Engineering students in the
formation of the ecological culture of the population. We consider crowdsourcing as an …

Collaborative knowledge building achieves better results than individual knowledge
building essentially due to the triggering phenomenon taking place among the users in a …

Although the amount of knowledge that the humans possess has been gradually increasing,
we still do not know the procedure and conditions that lead to the creation of new …

Data-driven decision-making has become the gold standard in science, industry, and public
policy. The trouble with data is that it frequently provides only an imperfect and partial …

Based on various factors such as experience, interest, and motivation, users in any system
choose to perform certain activities more than the others. In this study, we investigate a …

People neither behave uniformly in their social lives nor is their behavior entirely arbitrary.
Rather, their behavior depends on various factors such as their skills, motives, and …

Crowdsourcing has revolutionized the process of knowledge building on the web. Wikipedia
and StackOverflow are witness to this uprising development. However, the dynamics behind …

Ortega Hypothesis considers masses, ie, a large number of average people who are not
specially qualified as being instrumental in any system's progress. This hypothesis has been …