Putting the Pieces Back Together Again: Contest Webs for Large-Scale Problem Solving
Putting the Pieces Back Together Again: Contest Webs for Large-Scale Problem Solving
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10.1145/2998181.2998343
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2017-02
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Thomas W. Malone;Jeffrey V. Nickerson;Robert Laubacher;Laur Hesse Fisher;Patrick M. De Boer;Yue Han;W. B. Towne
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Thomas W. Malone;Jeffrey V. Nickerson;Robert Laubacher;Laur Hesse Fisher;Patrick M. De Boer;Yue Han;W. B. Towne
每当人们共同努力解决一个复杂的问题时，一个关键的问题是如何将问题分成不同的人完成的部分，并将这些部分组合成整个问题的解决方案。这篇论文提出了一种新的方法，通过一组被称为竞赛网的竞赛来做到这一点。基于实物产品供应链的类比，该方法激励人们(A)重复使用自己和他人所做的工作，(B)同时探索组合可互换部件的多种方法，以及(C)在他们可以做出最大贡献的部分上工作。这篇论文还描述了在一个超过5万人的在线社区中对这种方法进行的实地测试，这些人正在为如何应对全球气候变化制定建议。早期的结果表明，该方法确实可以按预期的规模发挥作用。
A key issue, whenever people work together to solve a complex problem, is how to divide the problem into parts done by different people and combine the parts into a solution for the whole problem. This paper presents a novel way of doing this with groups of contests called contest webs. Based on the analogy of supply chains for physical products, the method provides incentives for people to (a) reuse work done by themselves and others, (b) simultaneously explore multiple ways of combining interchangeable parts, and (c) work on parts of the problem where they can contribute the most. The paper also describes a field test of this method in an online community of over 50,000 people who are developing proposals for what to do about global climate change. The early results suggest that the method can, indeed, work at scale as intended.