Bücher der Reihe Foundations and Trends in Web Science

Expands the interdisciplinary scope of Web Science, specifically to accommodate cognitive science and the philosophy of mind. There is a substantial literature to support this expansionist agenda, and now is arguably the time to review it and explore the nature of the linkages that connect the science of the Web with the sciences of the mind.

This monograph introduces the area of Human Computation and present an overview of different applications for which Hybrid Human-Machine Information Systems have already been used in the realms of data management, information retrieval, natural language processing, semantic web, machine learning, and multimedia to better solve existing problems.