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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.
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I should like to thank Matthew Blumberg and Pietro Michelucci for useful advice. This work was partially supported by SNI membership 47907 of CONACyT, Mexico.
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Gershenson, C. (2013). Information and Computation. In: Michelucci, P. (eds) Handbook of Human Computation. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8806-4_7
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