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Crowdsourcing-based content moderation is a platform that hosts content moderation tasks for crowd workers to review user submissions (e.g. text, images and videos) and make decisions regarding the admissibility of the posted content, along…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Sainath Sanga , Venkata Sriram Siddhardh Nadendla

Context: The success of software crowdsourcing depends on steady tasks supply and active worker pool. Existing analysis reveals an average task failure ratio of 15.7% in software crowdsourcing market. Goal: The objective of this study is to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-07-31 Denisse Martinez Mejorado , Razieh Saremi , Ye Yang , Jose E. Ramirez-Marquez

Spatial crowdsourcing (SC) enables the assignment of location-based tasks to mobile users who must travel to specific locations to perform sensing or service activities. However, SC systems often operate in strategic environments where both…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Chattu Bhargavi , Vikash Kumar Singh , Alok Kumar Shukla

Despite significant investments in access network infrastructure, universal access to high-quality Internet connectivity remains a challenge. Policymakers often rely on large-scale, crowdsourced measurement datasets to assess the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Taveesh Sharma , Paul Schmitt , Francesco Bronzino , Nick Feamster , Nicole Marwell

We consider a task assignment problem in crowdsourcing, which is aimed at collecting as many reliable labels as possible within a limited budget. A challenge in this scenario is how to cope with the diversity of tasks and the task-dependent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-07-22 Hao Zhang , Yao Ma , Masashi Sugiyama

As the use of crowdsourcing increases, it is important to think about performance optimization. For this purpose, it is possible to think about each worker as a HPU(Human Processing Unit), and to draw inspiration from performance…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2016-10-17 Chen Cao , Zheng Liu , Lei Chen , H. V. Jagadish

One important problem in crowdsourcing is that of assigning tasks to workers. We consider a scenario where a worker is traveling on a preferred/typical path (e.g., from school to home) and there is a set of tasks available to be performed.…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-09-17 Camila F. Costa , Mario A. Nascimento

The aim of this work is to present a meta-heuristically approach of the spatial assignment problem of human resources in multi-sites enterprise. Usually, this problem consists to move employees from one site to another based on one or more…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-11-01 Tkatek Said , Abdoun Otman , Abouchabaka Jaafar , Rafalia Najat

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

We introduce the problem of Task Assignment and Sequencing (TAS), which adds the timeline perspective to expert crowdsourcing optimization. Expert crowdsourcing involves macrotasks, like document writing, product design, or web development,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-01-18 Heinz Schmitz , Ioanna Lykourentzou

Crowdsourced Software Engineering (CSE) offers outsourcing work to software practitioners by leveraging a global online workforce. However, these software practitioners struggle to identify suitable tasks due to the variety of options…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Shashiwadana Nirmani , Mojtaba Shahin , Hourieh Khalajzadeh , Xiao Liu

Consider unsupervised clustering of objects drawn from a discrete set, through the use of human intelligence available in crowdsourcing platforms. This paper defines and studies the problem of universal clustering using responses of crowd…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2016-10-11 Ravi Kiran Raman , Lav Varshney

Allowing members of the crowd to propose novel microtasks for one another is an effective way to combine the efficiencies of traditional microtask work with the inventiveness and hypothesis generation potential of human workers. However,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Abigail Hotaling , James P. Bagrow

The complexity of software tasks and the uncertainty of crowd developer behaviors make it challenging to plan crowdsourced software development (CSD) projects. In a competitive crowdsourcing marketplace, competition for shared worker…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Razieh Saremi , Hardik Yagnik , Julian Togelius , Ye Yang , Guenther Ruhe

Crowdwork often entails tackling cognitively-demanding and time-consuming tasks. Crowdsourcing can be used for complex annotation tasks, from medical imaging to geospatial data, and such data powers sensitive applications, such as health…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-09-07 Akira Matsui , Emilio Ferrara , Fred Morstatter , Andres Abeliuk , Aram Galstyan

With the rich set of embedded sensors installed in smartphones and the large number of mobile users, we witness the emergence of many innovative commercial mobile crowdsensing applications that combine the power of mobile technology with…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-23 Man Hon Cheung , Richard Southwell , Fen Hou , Jianwei Huang

There has been significant interest in crowdsourcing and human computation. One subclass of human computation applications are those directed at tasks that involve planning (e.g. travel planning) and scheduling (e.g. conference scheduling).…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-07-31 Kartik Talamadupula , Subbarao Kambhampati

We conduct an experimental analysis of a dataset comprising over 27 million microtasks performed by over 70,000 workers issued to a large crowdsourcing marketplace between 2012-2016. Using this data---never before analyzed in an academic…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2017-01-24 Ayush Jain , Akash Das Sarma , Aditya Parameswaran , Jennifer Widom

New techniques leveraging IT-mediated crowds such as Crowdsensing, Situated Crowdsourcing, Spatial Crowdsourcing, and Wearables Crowdsourcing have now materially emerged. These techniques, here termed next generation Crowdsourcing, serve to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2017-02-13 J. Prpic

Crowdsourcing works by distributing many small tasks to large numbers of workers, yet the true potential of crowdsourcing lies in workers doing more than performing simple tasks---they can apply their experience and creativity to provide…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-08-16 Thomas C. McAndrew , Elizaveta A. Guseva , James P. Bagrow