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Complicated-skills-based task assignment in spatial crowdsourcing

  • Jiaxu Liu*
  • , Haogang Zhu
  • , Xiao Chen
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Beihang University
  • Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications

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Abstract

Spatial crowdsourcing is an activity consisting in outsourcing spatial tasks to a community of online, yet on-ground and mobile, workers. Presently an increasing number of spatial crowdsourcing applications emerges due to the related technologies tends to maturity. Distinct from traditional crowdsourcing dualistic entities, task and worker, a special kind of applications imports the third one of skill. Consequently, a novel assignment problem called multiple skills assignment problem (MSAP) is generated which extends the entity relationship from 2 to 3 dimensions. Inspired by group strategy we first propose a lightweight algorithm GMA that could achieve approximate optimal solution quickly. However, GMA exists a defect of ignoring that workers with multiple skills can decrease total travel distance significantly. Thus we propose a revised algorithm RGMA to cut down distance cost. With synthetic datasets, we empirically and comparatively evaluate the performance of the baseline and two proposed algorithms.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationWeb-Age Information Management - WAIM 2016 International Workshops MWDA, SDMMW, and SemiBDMA, Revised Selected Papers
EditorsYongxin Tong, Shaoxu Song
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages211-223
Number of pages13
ISBN (Print)9783319471204
DOIs
StatePublished - 2016
Event17th International Conference on Web-Age Information Management, WAIM 2016 - Nanchang, China
Duration: 3 Jun 20165 Jun 2016

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume9998 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference17th International Conference on Web-Age Information Management, WAIM 2016
Country/TerritoryChina
CityNanchang
Period3/06/165/06/16

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