Incorporating the individual and collective problem solving skills of non-experts into the
scientific discovery process could potentially accelerate the advancement of science. This …

The amount of accessible computational devices over the Internet offers an enormous but
latent computational power. Nonetheless, the complexity of orchestrating and managing …

We propose a method to try to model fashionable dresses in this paper. We first discover
common visual patterns that appear in dress images using a human-in-the-loop, active …

In 2019, around 57% of the population of the world has broadband access to the Internet.
Moreover, there are 5.9 billion mobile broadband subscriptions, ie, 1.3 subscriptions per …

This article examines “paper puzzle games”—crosswords, Sudoku, Kakuro, word searches,
and so forth—in order to historicize and contextualize “casual games,” complicate our …

Computers connected to internet represent an immense computing power, mostly unused by
their owners. One way to utilize this public resource is via world wide web, where users can …

As science becomes increasingly computational, the limits of what is computationally
tractable become a barrier to scientific progress. Many scientific problems, however, are …

Volunteer computing (VC) or distributed computing projects are common in the citizen
cyberscience (CCS) community and present extensive opportunities for scientists to make …

With the proliferation of mobile devices, management of the growing user personal
generated multimedia content is more demanding. Proper organization of this content …

This paper discusses the applicability of human computing games to solving instances of NP-
complete problems, a collection of problems that cannot currently be efficiently solved with …