Information and Computation
arXiv:1304.1428v2212 citations
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This is an incremental review that synthesizes existing concepts for researchers in human computation and information theory.
The chapter reviews concepts of information and computation within human computation, using online social networks and Wikipedia as examples to illustrate their description and comparison.
In this chapter, concepts related to information and computation are reviewed in the context of human computation. A brief introduction to information theory and different types of computation is given. Two examples of human computation systems, online social networks and Wikipedia, are used to illustrate how these can be described and compared in terms of information and computation.