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Games that Enlist Collective Intelligence to Solve Complex Scientific Problems

There is great value in employing the collective problem-solving power of large groups of people. Technological advances have allowed computer games to be utilized by a diverse population to solve problems. Science games are becoming more popular and cover various areas such as sequence alignments, DNA base-pairing, and protein and RNA folding. While these tools have been developed for the gene...

a model to solve project scheduling and staff assignment problems

the allocation of human resources to project activities in order to schedule them is one of the closest states to the actual conditions of scheduling problems. but regarding the fact that this problem belongs to the class of np-hard problems; so far the exact methods have only been able to solve the small size problems. in this study, the renewable resources are humans in a way that every staff...

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NP Markets, or How To Get Everyone Else to Solve Your Intractable Problems

I discuss the prospects of opening securities markets in hard computational problems, including satisfiability, counting problems, and Bayesian inference problems. Such NP markets would offer direct monetary incentives for the development of better algorithms. Market prices would serve as collective approximate solutions, and bid-ask spreads may reflect problem difficulty. Some markets offer co...