When Resources Collide: Towards a Theory of Coincidence in Information Spaces

A research paper by Markus Luczak-Roesch, Ramine Tinati and Nigel Shadbolt on a general theory of coincidence in information spaces. The theory describes interactions between resources using a directed network model. The paper discusses the application of the theory to data from Zooniverse, the world’s largest on-line citizen science platform.

http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/374988/1/2014_SOCM_Flow__Formal__Camera_Ready.pdf