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'''Crowd-sourcing'''''Italic text'' is the process of getting work or funding, usually online, from a crowd of people. The word Crowd-sourcing is a combination of Crowd & Outsourcing

In [[multi-agent system]] research, '''distributed knowledge''' is all the knowledge that a community of agents possesses and might apply in solving a problem. Distributed knowledge is approximately what "a wise man knows" or what someone who has complete knowledge of what each member of the community knows knows. Distributed knowledge might also be called the aggregate knowledge of a community, as it represents all the knowledge that a community might bring to bear to solve a problem. Other related phrasings include cumulative knowledge, collective knowledge, pooled knowledge, or the wisdom of the crowd. Distributed knowledge is the union of all the knowledge of individuals in a community.

It is powered by new technologies and social media. Crowd-sourcing can take place on many different levels and across various industries. Crowd-sourcing can provide organizations with access to new ideas and solutions, optimization of tasks, and reduced costs. Millions of people, connected by the Internet, are contributing ideas and information to projects big and small. Crowd-sourcing, is helping to solve tricky problems and providing localized information with the right knowledge, contributing to the crowd.

== Example ==

There are many types of crowd-sourcing and we will be discussing distributed knowledge in detail.

The logicians Aaleyah and Isko are sitting in their dark office wondering whether or not it is raining outside. Now, none of them actually knows, but Aaleyah knows something about her friend Yu Yan, namely that Yu Yan wears her red coat [[only if]] it is raining. Bob does not know this, but he just saw Yu Yan, and noticed that she was wearing her red coat. Even though none of them knows whether or not it is raining, it is ''distributed knowledge'' amongst them that it is raining. If either one of them tells the other what they know, it will be clear to the other that it is raining.

If we denote by <math>\varphi</math> that Yu Yan wears a red coat and with <math>\varphi \Rightarrow \psi</math> that if Yu Yan wears a red coat, it is raining, we have

'''Distributed knowledge'''''Italic text'' - The development of knowledge assets or information resources from a distributed pool of contributors. In the age of globalization and internet, gathering and distributing content such as "common knowledge"or "collective knowledge" is very important. In simple words it means knowledge that flows from one user for the other users. It is also referred to as "aggregate knowledge of the community" or "wisdom of the crowd". This basically means that "no one of us is smarter than all of us combined".

An example of distributed knowledge - You don't always learn things by taking a class, you generally learn things by picking up stuff from the internet or watching others, this means you may learn things from many sources instead of just one source at a time.

: <math>(K_b\varphi \land K_a(\varphi \Rightarrow \psi)) \Rightarrow D_{a,b}\psi</math>

Companies that use distributed knowledge are '''Google, Intel and Amazon'''''Italic text''. For one, it turns out that Google, Intel, and Amazon each survey their employees extensively to better understand and improve on their employees’ experience. Google uses surveys to improve engagement and management. The people who design Google’s workplace culture make full use of what we call Employee Powered Data. They’ve dedicated a hefty amount of resources—whether it be industrial organizational psychologists, behavioral economists, or statisticians—to continually have their pulse on the employee experience and discover improvements.

What is Google’s staff doing to uncover these improvements? For one thing, they’re using surveys! Surveys run at several stages of the employee experience, each serving a unique purpose. Together with this, these companies are also planning to make surveys for customers to rate their products and recommendations for improvement.

Directly translated: Bob knows that Carol wears a red coat and Aaleyah knows that if Carol wears a red coat it is raining so together they know that it is raining.

Distributed knowledge is related to the concept [[Wisdom of the crowd]]. Distributed knowledge reflects the fact that "no one of us is smarter than all of us."

==See also==

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* [[Knowledge tags]]

* [[Interactional expertise]]

* [[Crowd-sourcingCrowdsourcing]]

* [[Collective problem solving]]