Improving Your Chances: Boosting Citizen Science Discovery

Proceedings of the 1st AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing, HCOMP 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 198-206

  Xue, Yexiang ^a   Dilkina, Bistra ^a   Damoulas, Theodoros ^a   Fink, Daniel ^b   Gomes, Carla P ^a   Kelling, Steve ^b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; HEURISTIC METHODS;

CITIZEN SCIENCE; COVERAGE PROBLEM; HEURISTICS APPROACHES; HIGH QUALITY; MAXIMUM COVERAGE; PROBABILISTICS; PROCESS ANALYSIS;

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84903148782     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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