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Solving optimal design problems through crowdsourcing faces a dilemma: On one hand, human beings have been shown to be more effective than algorithms at searching for good solutions of certain real-world problems with high-dimensional or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-04-28 Thurston Sexton , Max Yi Ren

Crowdsourcing with the intelligent agents carrying smart devices is becoming increasingly popular in recent years. It has opened up meeting an extensive list of real life applications such as measuring air pollution level, road traffic…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Vikash Kumar Singh , Anjani Samhitha Jasti , Sunil Kumar Singh , Sanket Mishra

Hybrid human/computer systems promise to greatly expand the usefulness of query processing by incorporating the crowd for data gathering and other tasks. Such systems raise many database system implementation questions. Perhaps most…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-02-13 Beth Trushkowsky , Tim Kraska , Michael J. Franklin , Purnamrita Sarkar

To ensure quality results from crowdsourced tasks, requesters often aggregate worker responses and use one of a plethora of strategies to infer the correct answer from the set of noisy responses. However, all current models assume prior…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-10-19 Christopher H. Lin , Mausam , Daniel Weld

Crowdsourcing is now widely used to replace judgement by an expert authority with an aggregate evaluation from a number of non-experts, in applications ranging from rating and categorizing online content to evaluation of student assignments…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-03-05 Anirban Dasgupta , Arpita Ghosh

In-vehicle edge computing is a much anticipated paradigm to serve ever-increasing computation demands originated from the ego vehicle, such as passenger entertainments. In this paper, we explore the unique idea of crowdsourcing passing-by…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Jiahe Cao , Qiang Liu , Dawei Chen , Kyungtae Han

This article unpacks the design choices behind longstanding and newly proposed computational frameworks aimed at finding common grounds across collective preferences and examines their potential future impacts, both technically and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Manon Revel , Théophile Pénigaud

Machine learning, artificial intelligence, and deep learning have advanced significantly over the past decade. Nonetheless, humans possess unique abilities such as creativity, intuition, context and abstraction, analytic problem solving,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Lea A. Shanley , Lucy Fortson , Tanya Berger-Wolf , Kevin Crowston , Pietro Michelucci

The sharing-economy-based business model has recently seen success in the transportation and accommodation sectors with companies like Uber and Airbnb. There is growing interest in applying this model to energy systems, with modalities like…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Ashutosh Timilsina , Simone Silvestri

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

This paper explores how AI-powered tools could be leveraged to streamline the process of identifying, screening, and analyzing relevant literature in academic research. More specifically, we examine the documented relationship between…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Ebenezer Asem , Ruijie Fan , Gloria Y. Tian

The unprecedented demand for large amount of data has catalyzed the trend of combining human insights with machine learning techniques, which facilitate the use of crowdsourcing to enlist label information both effectively and efficiently.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-26 Yao Zhou , Jingrui He

With the proliferation of the Internet of Things (IoT) and the wide penetration of wireless networks, the surging demand for data communications and computing calls for the emerging edge computing paradigm. By moving the services and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Quyuan Luo , Shihong Hu , Changle Li , Guanghui Li , Weisong Shi

Machine Learning competitions such as the Netflix Prize have proven reasonably successful as a method of "crowdsourcing" prediction tasks. But these competitions have a number of weaknesses, particularly in the incentive structure they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2011-11-14 Jacob Abernethy , Rafael M. Frongillo

Along with the rapid developments in communication technologies and the surge in the use of mobile devices, a brand-new computation paradigm, Edge Computing, is surging in popularity. Meanwhile, Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications are…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Shuiguang Deng , Hailiang Zhao , Weijia Fang , Jianwei Yin , Schahram Dustdar , Albert Y. Zomaya

The growing need for labeled training data has made crowdsourcing an important part of machine learning. The quality of crowdsourced labels is, however, adversely affected by three factors: (1) the workers are not experts; (2) the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-08 Nihar B. Shah , Dengyong Zhou , Yuval Peres

We investigate the feasibility of obtaining highly trustworthy results using crowdsourcing on complex engineering tasks. Crowdsourcing is increasingly seen as a potentially powerful way of increasing the supply of labor for solving…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-07-01 Matthew Staffelbach , Peter Sempolinski , David Hachen , Ahsan Kareem , Tracy Kijewski-Correa , Douglas Thain , Daniel Wei , Greg Madey

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

Rapid advances in image processing capabilities have been seen across many domains, fostered by the application of machine learning algorithms to "big-data". However, within the realm of medical image analysis, advances have been curtailed,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Silas Ørting , Andrew Doyle , Arno van Hilten , Matthias Hirth , Oana Inel , Christopher R. Madan , Panagiotis Mavridis , Helen Spiers , Veronika Cheplygina

Premised upon the observation that MOOC and crowdsourcing phenomena share several important characteristics, including IT mediation, large-scale human participation, and varying levels of openness to participants, this work systematizes a…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-05-22 John Prpic , James Melton , Araz Taeihagh , Terry Anderson