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While motion planning approaches for automated driving often focus on safety and mathematical optimality with respect to technical parameters, they barely consider convenience, perceived safety for the passenger and comprehensibility for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Maximilian Naumann , Martin Lauer , Christoph Stiller

The task of developing a machine learning (ML) model for a particular problem is inherently open-ended, and there is an unbounded set of possible solutions. Steps of the ML development pipeline, such as feature engineering, loss function…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Peter Washington , Aayush Nandkeolyar , Sam Yang

Artificial intelligence has made remarkable progress in handling complex tasks, thanks to advances in hardware acceleration and machine learning algorithms. However, to acquire more accurate outcomes and solve more complex issues,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Mohammad Dehghani , Zahra Yazdanparast

Task graphs provide a simple way to describe scientific workflows (sets of tasks with dependencies) that can be executed on both HPC clusters and in the cloud. An important aspect of executing such graphs is the used scheduling algorithm.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Jakub Beránek , Stanislav Böhm , Vojtěch Cima

Robotic shepherding is a bio-inspired approach to autonomously guiding a swarm of agents towards a desired location. The research area has earned increasing research interest recently due to the efficacy of controlling a large number of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Jing Liu , Hemant Singh , Saber Elsayed , Robert Hunjet , Hussein Abbass

Automated Planning is one of the main research field of Artificial Intelligence since its beginnings. Research in Automated Planning aims at developing general reasoners (i.e., planners) capable of automatically solve complex problems.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Alessandro Umbrico

In a wide array of areas, algorithms are matching and surpassing the performance of human experts, leading to consideration of the roles of human judgment and algorithmic prediction in these domains. The discussion around these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-01 Maithra Raghu , Katy Blumer , Greg Corrado , Jon Kleinberg , Ziad Obermeyer , Sendhil Mullainathan

Computer vision systems require large amounts of manually annotated data to properly learn challenging visual concepts. Crowdsourcing platforms offer an inexpensive method to capture human knowledge and understanding, for a vast number of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-08 Adriana Kovashka , Olga Russakovsky , Li Fei-Fei , Kristen Grauman

In this work, we present typical challenges encountered when developing methods for controlling crowds of people (or animal swarms). We discuss which elements shall be considered and the role they play to achieve a robust control in a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-04-04 Claudio Feliciani , Daichi Yanagisawa , Katsuhiro Nishinari

Very recently crowdsourcing has become the de facto platform for distributing and collecting human computation for a wide range of tasks and applications such as information retrieval, natural language processing and machine learning.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-05-21 Ittai Abraham , Omar Alonso , Vasilis Kandylas , Aleksandrs Slivkins

Crowd trajectory prediction plays a crucial role in public safety and management, where it can help prevent disasters such as stampedes. Recent works address the problem by predicting individual trajectories and considering surrounding…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Antonius Bima Murti Wijaya , Paul Henderson , Marwa Mahmoud

In human-robot collaboration (HRC), it is crucial for robot agents to consider humans' knowledge of their surroundings. In reality, humans possess a narrow field of view (FOV), limiting their perception. However, research on HRC often…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Ya-Chuan Hsu , Michael Defranco , Rutvik Patel , Stefanos Nikolaidis

What can humans compute in their heads? We are thinking of a variety of Crypto Protocols, games like Sudoku, Crossword Puzzles, Speed Chess, and so on. The intent of this paper is to apply the ideas and methods of theoretical computer…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2017-07-06 Manuel Blum , Santosh Vempala

Crowdsourcing is a multidisciplinary research area including disciplines like artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, database, and social science. To facilitate cooperation across disciplines, reproducibility is a crucial…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-09-06 Ruochen Jiang , Jiannan Wang

Complex machine learning models are deployed in several critical domains including healthcare and autonomous vehicles nowadays, albeit as functional black boxes. Consequently, there has been a recent surge in interpreting decisions of such…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Zijian Zhang , Jaspreet Singh , Ujwal Gadiraju , Avishek Anand

General-purpose crowdsourcing platforms are increasingly being harnessed for creative work. The platforms' potential for creative work is clearly identified, but the workers' perspectives on such work have not been extensively documented.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Jonas Oppenlaender , Kristy Milland , Aku Visuri , Panos Ipeirotis , Simo Hosio

Automated driving has the potential to revolutionize personal, public, and freight mobility. Beside accurately perceiving the environment, automated vehicles must plan a safe, comfortable, and efficient motion trajectory. To promote safety…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Steffen Hagedorn , Marcel Hallgarten , Martin Stoll , Alexandru Condurache

Understanding how people move in the urban area is important for solving urbanization issues, such as traffic management, urban planning, epidemic control, and communication network improvement. Leveraging recent availability of large…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Yuren Zhou , Billy Pik Lik Lau , Chau Yuen , Bige Tunçer , Erik Wilhelm

Crowdsourced machine learning on competition platforms such as Kaggle is a popular and often effective method for generating accurate models. Typically, teams vie for the most accurate model, as measured by overall error on a holdout set,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Ira Globus-Harris , Declan Harrison , Michael Kearns , Pietro Perona , Aaron Roth

Crowdsourced data supports real-time decision-making but faces challenges like misinformation, errors, and contributor power concentration. This study systematically examines trust management practices across platforms categorised as…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Iffat Gheyas , Muhammad Rizwan Asghar , Steve Schneider , Alan Woodward