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SLADE: A smart large-scale task decomposer in crowdsourcing

Yongxin Tong, Lei Chen, Zimu Zhou, Hosagrahar Visvesvaraya Jagadish, Lidan Shou, Weifeng Lv

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Abstract

A crowdsourcing task in real-world applications often consists of thousands of atomic tasks. A common practice to distribute a large-scale crowdsourcing task is to pack atomic tasks into task bins and send to crowd workers in batches. It is challenging to decompose a large-scale crowdsourcing task into task bins to ensure reliability at a minimal total cost. In this paper, we propose the Smart Large-scAle task DEcomposer (SLADE) problem, which aims to decompose a large-scale crowdsourcing task to achieve the desired reliability at a minimal cost. We prove its NP-hardness and study two variants of the problem. For the homogeneous SLADE problem, we propose a greedy algorithm and an approximation framework using an optimal priority queue (OPQ) structure with provable approximation ratio. For the heterogeneous SLADE problem, we extend this framework and prove its approximation guarantee. Extensive experiments validate the effectiveness and efficiency of the solutions. © 2019 IEEE.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2019 IEEE 35th International Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE 2019
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages2133-2134
Volume2019-April
ISBN (Print)9781538674741
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Apr 2019
Externally publishedYes
Event35th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE 2019 - Macau, China
Duration: 8 Apr 201911 Apr 2019

Publication series

NameProceedings - International Conference on Data Engineering
Volume2019-April
ISSN (Print)1084-4627

Conference

Conference35th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE 2019
PlaceChina
CityMacau
Period8/04/1911/04/19

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Research Keywords

  • Crowdsourcing
  • Task assignment
  • Task decomposition

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