The SWARM Project

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The Smartly-assembled Wiki-style Argument Marshalling (SWARM) Project is a research project, looking at how human reasoning can be improved. [1] [2] [3] The project is based at the University of Melbourne, and is developing and testing a cloud-based platform and methods aimed at fundamental advancing in reasoning performance through crowdsourcing. [4] [5] The SWARM Project is part of the Crowdsourcing Evidence, Argumentation, Thinking and Evaluation (CREATE) Program managed by the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity. [4] [6] [7]

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