Task allocation in spatial crowdsourcing: Current state and future directions

B Guo, Y Liu, L Wang, VOK Li… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Spatial crowdsourcing (SC) is an emerging paradigm of crowdsourcing, which commits
workers to move to some particular locations to perform spatio-temporal-relevant tasks (eg …

Task allocation in mobile crowd sensing: State-of-the-art and future opportunities

J Wang, L Wang, Y Wang, D Zhang… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mobile crowd sensing (MCS) is the special case of crowdsourcing, which leverages the
smartphones with various embedded sensors and user's mobility to sense diverse …

Spatial crowdsourcing: a survey

Y Tong, Z Zhou, Y Zeng, L Chen, C Shahabi - The VLDB Journal, 2020 - Springer
Crowdsourcing is a computing paradigm where humans are actively involved in a
computing task, especially for tasks that are intrinsically easier for humans than for …

Towards enhancing the last-mile delivery: An effective crowd-tasking model with scalable solutions

Y Wang, D Zhang, Q Liu, F Shen, LH Lee - Transportation Research Part E …, 2016 - Elsevier
In urban logistics, the last-mile delivery from the warehouse to the consumer's home has
become more and more challenging with the continuous growth of E-commerce. It requires …

Online mobile micro-task allocation in spatial crowdsourcing

Y Tong, J She, B Ding, L Wang… - 2016 IEEE 32Nd …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the rapid development of smartphones, spatial crowdsourcing platforms are getting
popular. A foundational research of spatial crowdsourcing is to allocate micro-tasks to …

An optimization and auction-based incentive mechanism to maximize social welfare for mobile crowdsourcing

Y Wang, Z Cai, ZH Zhan, YJ Gong… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mobile crowdsourcing is an emerging crowdsourcing paradigm, which generates large-
scale sensing tasks and sensing data. One of the major issues in mobile crowdsourcing is …

Task assignment on multi-skill oriented spatial crowdsourcing

P Cheng, X Lian, L Chen, J Han… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the rapid development of mobile devices and crowdsourcing platforms, the spatial
crowdsourcing has attracted much attention from the database community. Specifically, the …

A survey of general-purpose crowdsourcing techniques

AI Chittilappilly, L Chen… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Since Jeff Howe introduced the term Crowdsourcing in 2006, this human-powered problem-
solving paradigm has gained a lot of attention and has been a hot research topic in the field …

HyTasker: Hybrid task allocation in mobile crowd sensing

J Wang, F Wang, Y Wang, L Wang, Z Qiu… - IEEE Transactions …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Task allocation is a major challenge in Mobile Crowd Sensing (MCS). While previous task
allocation approaches follow either the opportunistic or participatory mode, this paper …

Multi-objective optimization based allocation of heterogeneous spatial crowdsourcing tasks

L Wang, Z Yu, Q Han, B Guo… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the rapid development of mobile networks and the proliferation of mobile devices,
spatial crowdsourcing, which refers to recruiting mobile workers to perform location-based …