Modelling growth of urban crowd-sourced information

WSDM 2014 - Proceedings of the 7th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 563-572

  Quattrone, Giovanni ^a   Mashhadi, Afra ^b   Quercia, Daniele ^c   Smith Clarke, Chris ^a   Capra, Licia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^c YAHOO RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

cellular automata; crowd sourcing; modelling

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR AUTOMATA; DATA MINING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MODELS; WEBSITES;

CROWD-SOURCING; DIGITAL GROWTH; DIGITAL INFORMATION; ORDNANCE SURVEYS; SPATIAL INFORMATIONS; SPONTANEOUS GROWTH; URBAN PLANNERS; USER-GENERATED CONTENT;

URBAN GROWTH;

EID: 84901387194     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2556195.2556244     Document Type: Conference Paper

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