Mass collaboration problem solving: A new approach to wicked problems

2010 International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems, CTS 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 398-407

  Potter, Andrew ^a   McClure, Melody ^a   Sellers, Ken ^a  

^a Sentar Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Crowdsourcing; Distributed systems; Mass collaboration; Problem solving; Social networks

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATION PROBLEMS; DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; FUTURE DIRECTIONS; HARD PROBLEMS; LIFE CYCLE MODEL; NEW APPROACHES; OBJECTIVE DEFINITION; SOCIAL NETWORKS; SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES; WICKED PROBLEMS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); SUPPLY CHAINS;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 77954484198     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CTS.2010.5478486     Document Type: Conference Paper

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