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Stragglers, Byzantine workers, and data privacy are the main bottlenecks in distributed cloud computing. Some prior works proposed coded computing strategies to jointly address all three challenges. They require either a large number of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Tingting Tang , Ramy E. Ali , Hanieh Hashemi , Tynan Gangwani , Salman Avestimehr , Murali Annavaram

As blockchain applications become increasingly widespread, there is a rising demand for on-chain data queries. However, existing schemes for on-chain data queries face a challenge between verifiability and efficiency. Queries on blockchain…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Meng Shen , Yuzhi Liu , Qinglin Zhao , Wei Wang , Wei Ou , Wenbao Han , Liehuang Zhu

In crowdsourced subjective video quality assessment, practitioners often face a choice between Absolute Category Rating (ACR), ACR with Hidden Reference (ACR-HR), and Comparison Category Rating (CCR). We conducted a P.910-compliant,…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Babak Naderi , Ross Cutler

Cross chain interoperability in blockchain systems exposes a fundamental tension between user privacy and regulatory accountability. Existing solutions enforce an all or nothing choice between full anonymity and mandatory identity…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Minhao Qiao , Hai Dong , Iqbal Gondal

Many computer scientists use the aggregated answers of online workers to represent ground truth. Prior work has shown that aggregation methods such as majority voting are effective for measuring relatively objective features. For subjective…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Jiele Wu , Chau-Wai Wong , Xinyan Zhao , Xianpeng Liu

Collecting anonymous opinions finds various applications ranging from simple whistleblowing, releasing secretive information, to complex forms of voting, where participants rank candidates by order of preferences. Unfortunately, as far as…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Christian Cachin , Daniel Collins , Tyler Crain , Vincent Gramoli

Distributed ledger systems (i.e., blockchains) have received a lot of attention. They promise to enable mutually untrusted participants to execute transactions while providing the immutability of the data and censorship resistance. Although…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Ivan Homoliak , Mario Larangeira , Martin Peresini , Pawel Szalachowski

The privacy-preserving data aggregation is a critical problem for many applications where multiple parties need to collaborate with each other privately to arrive at certain results. Blockchain, as a database shared across the network,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Goshgar Ismayilov , Can Ozturan

Deepfakes are increasingly realistic and easy to produce, raising concerns about the reliability of human judgments in misinformation settings. We study audiovisual deepfake detection by measuring how consistently crowd workers distinguish…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Michael Soprano , Andrea Cioci , Stefano Mizzaro

HCI increasingly employs Machine Learning and Image Recognition, in particular for visual analysis of user interfaces (UIs). A popular way for obtaining human-labeled training data is Crowdsourcing, typically using the quality control…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Maxim Bakaev , Sebastian Heil , Martin Gaedke

Employee data can be used to facilitate work, but their misusage may pose risks for individuals. Inverse transparency therefore aims to track all usages of personal data, allowing individuals to monitor them to ensure accountability for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Valentin Zieglmeier , Gabriel Loyola Daiqui , Alexander Pretschner

Crowdsourcing platforms offer a way to label data by aggregating answers of multiple unqualified workers. We introduce a \textit{simple} and \textit{budget efficient} crowdsourcing method named Proxy Crowdsourcing (PCS). PCS collects…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Gal Cohensius , Omer Ben Porat , Reshef Meir , Ofra Amir

Targeting the right group of workers for crowdsourcing often achieves better quality results. One unique example of targeted crowdsourcing is seeking community-situated workers whose familiarity with the background and the norms of a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Sabirat Rubya , Joseph Numainville , Svetlana Yarosh

Analytics on personal data, such as individuals' mobility, financial, and health data can be of significant benefit to society. Such data is already collected by smartphones, apps and services today, but liberal societies have so far…

Crowd-intelligence tries to gather, process, infer and ascertain massive useful information by utilizing the intelligence of crowds or distributed computers, which has great potential in Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). A…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Jinliang Xu , Shangguang Wang , Bharat K. Bhargava , Fangchun Yang

Voting forms the most important tool for arriving at a decision in any institution. The changing needs of the civilization currently demands a practical yet secure electronic voting system, but any flaw related to the applied voting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-08 Sandeep Mishra , Kishore Thapliyal , S Krish Rewanth , Abhishek Parakh , Anirban Pathak

Ranking a set of samples based on subjectivity, such as the experience quality of streaming video or the happiness of images, has been a typical crowdsourcing task. Numerous studies have employed paired comparison analysis to solve…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Ming-Hung Wang , Chia-Yuan Zhang , Jia-Ru Song

We explore the design of an effective crowdsourcing system for an $M$-ary classification task. Crowd workers complete simple binary microtasks whose results are aggregated to give the final classification decision. We consider the scenario…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-04-05 Qunwei Li , Pramod K. Varshney

As a valuable digital resource, graph data is an important data asset, which has been widely utilized across various fields to optimize decision-making and enable smarter solutions. To manage data assets, blockchain is widely used to enable…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Hongguang Zhao , Xu Yang , Saiyu Qi , Qiuhao Wang , Ke Li

In multimedia crowdsourcing, the requester's quality requirements and reward decisions will affect the workers' task selection strategies and the quality of their multimedia contributions. In this paper, we present a first study on how the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-26 Qi Shao , Man Hon Cheung , Jianwei Huang