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Synergizing a Decentralized Framework with LLM-Assisted Skill and Willingness-Aware Task Assignment for Volunteer Crowdsourcing

Emerging Technologies 2026-03-17 v1

Abstract

Volunteer crowdsourcing or VCS platforms increasingly support education, healthcare, disaster response, and smart city applications, yet assigning volunteers to complex tasks remains challenging due to fine-grained skill heterogeneity, unstructured profiles, dynamic willingness, and bursty workloads. Existing methods often rely on coarse or keyword-based skill representations, resulting in poor matching quality. We propose a hybrid VCS framework that integrates LLM-assisted semantic preprocessing, an interpretable skill- and willingness-aware assignment engine, and blockchain-enforced execution. The LLM is used only to extract and canonicalize fine-grained skills and preference cues from unstructured resumes and task descriptions, while assignment is performed by a utility-driven matcher that models partial skill coverage and participation likelihood. Smart contracts provide transparent and tamper-resistant enforcement without on-chain optimization overhead. Experiments on diverse resume datasets show a 42.3% improvement in assignment utility over skill-only greedy matching and an increase in task coverage from 0.80 to 0.90. These results highlight the value of combining semantic intelligence, interpretable matching, and decentralized enforcement for effective volunteer-task allocation.

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@article{arxiv.2603.15095,
  title  = {Synergizing a Decentralized Framework with LLM-Assisted Skill and Willingness-Aware Task Assignment for Volunteer Crowdsourcing},
  author = {Riya Samanta and Rituparna Bhattyacharya},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.15095},
  year   = {2026}
}
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