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Quality assurance is one the most important challenges in crowdsourcing. Assigning tasks to several workers to increase quality through redundant answers can be expensive if asking homogeneous sources. This limitation has been overlooked by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-08-12 Besmira Nushi , Adish Singla , Anja Gruenheid , Erfan Zamanian , Andreas Krause , Donald Kossmann

Vehicular mobile crowd sensing is a fast-emerging paradigm to collect data about the environment by mounting sensors on vehicles such as taxis. An important problem in vehicular crowd sensing is to design payment mechanisms to incentivize…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-17 Susu Xu , Weiguang Mao , Yue Cao , Hae Young Noh , Nihar B. Shah

Crowdsourced on-demand services offer benefits such as reduced costs, faster service fulfillment times, greater adaptability, and contributions to sustainable urban transportation in on-demand delivery contexts. However, the success of an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Georgina Nouli , Axel Parmentier , Maximilian Schiffer

Crowd sensing is a new paradigm which leverages the ubiquity of sensor-equipped mobile devices to collect data. To achieve good quality for crowd sensing, incentive mechanisms are indispensable to attract more participants. Most of existing…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-01 Jiajun Sun

In this paper, we consider the problem of resource congestion control for competing online learning agents. On the basis of non-cooperative game as the model for the interaction between the agents, and the noisy online mirror ascent as the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Ezra Tampubolon , Holger Boche

Realtime crowdsourcing research has demonstrated that it is possible to recruit paid crowds within seconds by managing a small, fast-reacting worker pool. Realtime crowds enable crowd-powered systems that respond at interactive speeds: for…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-04-16 Michael S. Bernstein , David R. Karger , Robert C. Miller , Joel Brandt

We investigate crowdsourcing algorithms for finding the top-quality item within a large collection of objects with unknown intrinsic quality values. This is an important problem with many relevant applications, for example in networked…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Alessandro Nordio , Alberto Tarable , Emilio Leonardi , Marco Ajmone Marsan

We study a crowdsourcing problem where the platform aims to incentivize distributed workers to provide high quality and truthful solutions without the ability to verify the solutions. While most prior work assumes that the platform and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-12 Chao Huang , Haoran Yu , Jianwei Huang , Randall A. Berry

Reward design is a critical part of the application of reinforcement learning, the performance of which strongly depends on how well the reward signal frames the goal of the designer and how well the signal assesses progress in reaching…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Yixiang Wang , Yujing Hu , Feng Wu , Yingfeng Chen

Mobile Crowdsensing has shown a great potential to address large-scale problems by allocating sensing tasks to pervasive Mobile Users (MUs). The MUs will participate in a Crowdsensing platform if they can receive satisfactory reward. In…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Jiangtian Nie , Zehui Xiong , Dusit Niyato , Ping Wang , Jun Luo

With the industry trend of shifting from a traditional hierarchical approach to flatter management structure, crowdsourced performance assessment gained mainstream popularity. One fundamental challenge of crowdsourced performance assessment…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Yifei Huang , Matt Shum , Xi Wu , Jason Zezhong Xiao

Crowd sensing is a new paradigm that leverages pervasive sensor-equipped mobile devices to provide sensing services like forensic analysis, documenting public spaces, and collaboratively constructing statistical models. Extensive user…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-05-26 Jiajun Sun

Crowdsourcing has become an efficient paradigm for performing large scale tasks. Truth discovery and incentive mechanism are fundamentally important for the crowdsourcing system. Many truth discovery methods and incentive mechanisms for…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Lingyun Jiang , Xiaofu Niu , Jia Xu , Dejun Yang , Lijie Xu

In crowdsourcing, a group of common people is asked to execute the tasks and in return will receive some incentives. In this article, one of the crowdsourcing scenarios with multiple heterogeneous tasks and multiple IoT devices (as task…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Chattu Bhargavi , Vikash Kumar Singh

The evolution of AI is advancing rapidly, creating both challenges and opportunities for industry-community collaboration. In this work, we present a novel methodology aiming to facilitate this collaboration through crowdsourcing of AI…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Parthasarathy Suryanarayanan , Sundar Saranathan , Shilpa Mahatma , Divya Pathak

Quality control plays a critical role in crowdsourcing. The state-of-the-art work is not suitable for large-scale crowdsourcing applications, since it is a long haul for the requestor to verify task quality or select professional workers in…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-27 Kun Li , Shengling Wang , Xiuzhen Cheng , Qin Hu

Crowdsourcing is an effective method to collect data by employing distributed human population. Researchers introduce appropriate reward mechanisms to incentivize agents to report accurately. In particular, this paper focuses on Peer-Based…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Samhita Kanaparthy , Sankarshan Damle , Sujit Gujar

Many real-world systems such as taxi systems, traffic networks and smart grids involve self-interested actors that perform individual tasks in a shared environment. However, in such systems, the self-interested behaviour of agents produces…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-01-31 David Mguni , Joel Jennings , Sergio Valcarcel Macua , Emilio Sison , Sofia Ceppi , Enrique Munoz de Cote

Mobile crowdsensing has shown a great potential to address large-scale data sensing problems by allocating sensing tasks to pervasive mobile users. The mobile users will participate in a crowdsensing platform if they can receive…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-01 Jiangtian Nie , Jun Luo , Zehui Xiong , Dusit Niyato , Ping Wang

Crowdsourcing platforms provide marketplaces where task requesters can pay to get labels on their data. Such markets have emerged recently as popular venues for collecting annotations that are crucial in training machine learning models in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-28 Ashish Khetan , Sewoong Oh