Literature review on collective intelligence: a crowd science perspective

Abstract

Purpose - Collective intelligence has drawn many scientists’ attention in many centuries. This paper shows the collective intelligence study process in a perspective of crowd science. Design/methodology/approach - After summarizing the time-order process of related researches, different points of views on collective intelligence’s measurement and their modeling methods were outlined. Findings - The authors show the recent research focusing on collective intelligence optimization. The studies on application of collective intelligence and its future potential are also discussed. Originality/value - This paper will help researchers in crowd science have a better picture of this highly related frontier interdiscipline.

Keywords

• Open innovation
• Collective intelligence
• Crowd science
• Group wisdom