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With the rapid development of mobile devices and the crowdsourcig platforms, the spatial crowdsourcing has attracted much attention from the database community, specifically, spatial crowdsourcing refers to sending a location-based request…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-10-27 Peng Cheng , Xiang Lian , Zhao Chen , Rui Fu , Lei Chen , Jinsong Han , Jizhong Zhao

With the prevalence of mobile devices and ubiquitous wireless networks, spatial crowdsourcing has attracted much attention from both academic and industry communities. On spatial crowdsourcing platforms, task requesters can publish spatial…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Yunjun Zhou , Shuhan Wan , Detian Zhang , Shiting Wen

The prevalence of mobile internet techniques stimulates the emergence of various spatial crowdsourcing applications. Certain of the applications serve for requesters, budget providers, who submit a batch of tasks and a fixed budget to…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Jia-Xu Liu , Ke Xu

We consider the problem of optimal budget allocation for crowdsourcing problems, allocating users to tasks to maximize our final confidence in the crowdsourced answers. Such an optimized worker assignment method allows us to boost the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Angela Zhou , Irineo Cabreros , Karan Singh

With the rapid development of crowdsourcing platforms that aggregate the intelligence of Internet workers, crowdsourcing has been widely utilized to address problems that require human cognitive abilities. Considering great dynamics of…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Jiayang Tu , Peng Cheng , Lei Chen

Existing research in crowdsourcing has investigated how to recommend tasks to workers based on which task the workers have already completed, referred to as {\em implicit feedback}. We, on the other hand, investigate the task recommendation…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-09-08 Habibur Rahman , Lucas Joppa , Senjuti Basu Roy

The problem of allocating tasks to workers is of long standing fundamental importance. Examples of this include the classical problem of assigning computing tasks to nodes in a distributed computing environment, as well as the more recent…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-04 Chen Hajaj , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik

A typical viral marketing model identifies influential users in a social network to maximize a single product adoption assuming unlimited user attention, campaign budgets, and time. In reality, multiple products need campaigns, users have…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-01-31 Nan Du , Yingyu Liang , Maria-Florina Balcan , Manuel Gomez-Rodriguez , Hongyuan Zha , Le Song

For decades, the crowdsourcing has gained much attention from both academia and industry, which outsources a number of tasks to human workers. Existing works considered improving the task accuracy through voting or learning methods, they…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-02-26 Peng Cheng , Xiang Lian , Xun Jian , Lei Chen

In collective systems, the available agents are a limited resource that must be allocated among tasks to maximize collective performance. Computing the optimal allocation of several agents to numerous tasks through a brute-force approach…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Simay Atasoy Bingöl , Tobias Töpfer , Sven Kosub , Heiko Hamann , Andreagiovanni Reina

We present SmartCrowd, a framework for optimizing collaborative knowledge-intensive crowdsourcing. SmartCrowd distinguishes itself by accounting for human factors in the process of assigning tasks to workers. Human factors designate…

Annotation through crowdsourcing draws incremental attention, which relies on an effective selection scheme given a pool of workers. Existing methods propose to select workers based on their performance on tasks with ground truth, while two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Yushi Sun , Jiachuan Wang , Peng Cheng , Libin Zheng , Lei Chen , Jian Yin

Crowdsourcing refers to the arrangement in which contributions are solicited from a large group of unrelated people. Due to this nature, crowdsourcers (or task requesters) often face uncertainty about the workers' capabilities which, in…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2016-01-25 Han Yu

Mobile sensing has become a promising paradigm for mobile users to obtain information by task crowdsourcing. However, due to the social preferences of mobile users, the quality of sensing reports may be impacted by the underlying social…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-07-23 Ju Ren , Yaoxue Zhang , Kuan Zhang , Xuemin , Shen

Worker recruitment is a crucial research problem in Mobile Crowd Sensing (MCS). While previous studies rely on a specified platform with a pre-assumed large user pool, this paper leverages the influenced propagation on the social network to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Jiangtao Wang , Feng Wang , Yasha Wang , Daqing Zhang , Leye Wang , Zhaopeng Qiu

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

Workers recruitment remains a significant issue in Mobile Crowdsourcing (MCS), where the aim is to recruit a group of workers that maximizes the expected Quality of Service (QoS). Current recruitment systems assume that a pre-defined pool…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Ahmed Alagha , Shakti Singh , Hadi Otrok , Rabeb Mizouni

Faster and more cost-efficient, crowdsourced delivery is needed to meet the growing customer demands of many industries, including online shopping, on-demand local delivery, and on-demand transportation. The power of crowdsourced delivery…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Fuat Basik , Bugra Gedik , Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu , Kun-Lung Wu

Spatial Crowdsourcing (SC) is gaining traction in both academia and industry, with tasks on SC platforms becoming increasingly complex and requiring collaboration among workers with diverse skills. Recent research works address complex…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Yong Zhao , Zhengqiu Zhu , Chen Gao , En Wang , Jincai Huang , Fei-Yue Wang

Crowdsourcing is a relatively economic and efficient solution to collect annotations from the crowd through online platforms. Answers collected from workers with different expertise may be noisy and unreliable, and the quality of annotated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Jingzheng Tu , Guoxian Yu , Jun Wang , Carlotta Domeniconi , Xiangliang Zhang