The role of game theory in human computation systems

Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Human Computation, HCOMP '09

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 58-61

  Jain, Shaili ^a   Parkes, David C ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AI TECHNOLOGIES; COMPUTATIONAL PROBLEM; COMPUTATIONAL WORK; DISTRIBUTED WORK; GAME-THEORETIC MODEL; GAMES WITH A PURPOSE; HUMAN ABILITIES; HUMAN COMPUTATION; MULTIPLAYER GAMES; PEER PRODUCTION; RESEARCH CHALLENGES; WIKIPEDIA;

GAME THEORY;

COMPUTATION THEORY;

EID: 70449652439     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1600150.1600171     Document Type: Conference Paper

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