Assigning tasks to workers based on historical data: Online task assignment with two-sided arrivals

JP Dickerson, KA Sankararaman… - … on Autonomous Agents …, 2018 - par.nsf.gov
Efficient allocation of tasks to workers is a central problem in crowdsourcing. In this paper,
we consider a special setting inspired by spatial crowdsourcing platforms where both …

An online incentive mechanism for crowdsensing with random task arrivals

G Li, J Cai - IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, an online truthful mechanism is designed for mobile crowdsensing systems.
Traditionally, the scenario where participants arrived at the platform in an online manner has …

Balancing relevance and diversity in online bipartite matching via submodularity

JP Dickerson, KA Sankararaman, A Srinivasan… - Proceedings of the AAAI …, 2019 - aaai.org
In bipartite matching problems, vertices on one side of a bipartite graph are paired with
those on the other. In its online variant, one side of the graph is available offline, while the …

Online resource allocation with matching constraints

J Dickerson, K Sankararaman, K Sarpatwar… - … on Autonomous Agents …, 2019 - par.nsf.gov
Matching markets with historical data are abundant in many applications, eg, matching
candidates to jobs in hiring, workers to tasks in crowdsourcing markets, and jobs to servers …

Quality of sensing aware budget feasible mechanism for mobile crowdsensing

B Song, H Shah-Mansouri… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In a mobile crowdsensing system, the platform utilizes ubiquitous smartphones to perform
sensing tasks. For a successful mobile crowdsensing application, the consideration of the …

Incentivize maximum continuous time interval coverage under budget constraint in mobile crowd sensing

J Xu, J Xiang, Y Li - Wireless Networks, 2017 - Springer
Mobile crowd sensing has become an effective approach to meet the demand in large scale
sensing applications. In mobile crowd sensing applications, incentive mechanisms are …

Online incentive mechanism for crowdsourced radio environment map construction

X Wang, M Umehira, B Han, P Li… - ICC 2019-2019 IEEE …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Constructing Radio Environment Map (REM) accurately and cost-efficiently is of great
importance to realize dynamic spectrum access. Two kinds of approaches are widely …

Matching Tasks and Workers under Known Arrival Distributions: Online Task Assignment with Two-sided Arrivals

JP Dickerson, K Sankararaman, A Srinivasan… - ACM Transactions on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Efficient allocation of tasks to workers is a central problem in crowdsourcing. In this article,
we consider a setting inspired by spatial crowdsourcing platforms, where both workers and …

Privacy-respecting auctions and rewarding mechanisms in mobile crowd-sensing applications

T Dimitriou, I Krontiris - Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 2017 - Elsevier
Mobile Crowdsensing (MCS) has emerged as a new paradigm for data collection and
knowledge representation, where people use their devices to interact with the environment …

Prophet inequality with correlated arrival probabilities, with application to two sided matchings

VA Truong, X Wang - arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.02552, 2019 - arxiv.org
The classical Prophet Inequality arises from a fundamental problem in optimal-stopping
theory. In this problem, a gambler sees a finite sequence of independent, non-negative …