"The Whole Is Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts": Optimization in Collaborative Crowdsourcing

The Knowledge Translation Complexity Network (KTCN) Model: The Whole Is Greater Than the Sum of the Parts - A Response to Recent Commentaries

Is the Whole Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts?

Œe part-whole relationship routinely €nds itself in many disciplines, ranging from collaborative teams, crowdsourcing, autonomous systems to networked systems. From the algorithmic perspective, the existing work has primarily focused on predicting the outcomes of the whole and parts, by either separate models or linear joint models, which assume the outcome of the parts has a linear and indepen...

The Magic Pudding; Comment on “Four Challenges That Global Health Networks Face”

This commentary reflects on the contribution of this editorial and its “Three Challenges That Global Health Networks Face” to the totality of the framework developed over the past decade by Shiffman and his collaborators. It reviews the earlier works to demonstrate that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts in providing a package of tools for analysis of network effectiveness.   Additi...

Erklärung zur Verfassung der Arbeit

A whole is greater than the sum of its parts. A collaborating team is greater than a group of contributors working in isolation. In this thesis we introduce a novel technique called collaboration-assisted computation that evolves human-assisted computation in line with these postulates. As human computation focuses on integrating human input at various phases of machine computation, so collabor...

The Effects of Collaborative and Individual Output Tasks on Learning English Collocations

  One of the most problematic areas in foreign language learning is collocation. It is often seen as arbitrary and an overwhelming obstacle to the achievement of nativelike fluency. Current second language (L2) instruction research has encouraged the use of collaborative output tasks in L2 classrooms. This study examined the effects of two types of output tasks (editing and cloze) on the learni...