In January we organised a very successful edition CrowdNet 2012 the 2nd Workshop on Cloud Labor and Human Computation (http://ksri-summit2012.ksri.kit.edu/crowdnet/index.php/Main_Page)

The CrowdNet workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from various disciplines and industries who are interested in the scientific and economic challenges of cloud labor and human computation. Beside general aspects regarding the concept of cloud labor and human computation, the specific requirements and relevant applications, the workshop intends to cover the perspectives of the service requester, of the human computation platform as well as of the cloud workers.

Relevant topics include but are not limited to: Architecture and design and IT infrastructure and platforms, Platform ergonomics, interface / task design, Computational models of group search and optimization, taxonomies and mechanisms of HC CS CI, task de- and re-composition, Task/problem identification, Task allocation & matching, business process re-engineering, business model & business case contracting and taxes, cost and skill (estimation) of contributors, reliability and quality management, incentives / payment and workers motivation, human in the Loop: Identification / Observation / Evaluation / Motivation, ethics of collective intelligence (e.g., “digital sweatshops”), social acceptance, deliberate democracy, public policy design (e.g., regulatory reform), privacy, copyright, identity theft, standards and Compliance, human computation, crowdsourcing and wisdom of crowds, network externalities and social credit in garnering data, knowledge and learning, active learning from imperfect human contributors.