Socio-technical Computation

A paper by Markus Luczak-Rösch, Ramine Tinati, Kieron O’Hara and Nigel Shadbolt on “Socio-technical Computation:” collaborative problem solving through information sharing. The authors pose the question: Can the accumulated information propagation behaviour on the Web be conceived as a giant machine, and reasoned about accordingly?

http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/372857/1/luczakroesch_paper.pdf