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This chapter gives an introduction to human computation and crowdsourcing techniques. Next, the key features of human task marketplaces such as Amazon Mechanical Turk are briefly outlined. In the following, service-oriented crowdsourcing is motivated by giving an example. Finally, adaptive processes in the context of crowdsourcing are discussed and an outline of the book is given.
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Schall, D. (2012). Introduction. In: Service-Oriented Crowdsourcing. SpringerBriefs in Computer Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5956-9_1
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