The rapid growth of human computation within research and industry has produced many
novel ideas aimed at organizing web users to do great things. However, the growth is not …

Social media is an invaluable source of time-critical information during a crisis. However,
emergency response and humanitarian relief organizations that would like to use this …

One problem facing players of competitive games is negative, or toxic, behavior. League of
Legends, the largest eSport game, uses a crowdsourcing platform called the Tribunal to …

Classifier combination methods need to make best use of the outputs of multiple, imperfect
classifiers to enable higher accuracy classifications. In many situations, such as when …

Current times are denoting unprecedented indicators of scientific data production, and the
involvement of the wider public (the crowd) on research has attracted increasing attention …

In this paper, we investigate an approach to program synthesis that is based on crowd-
sourcing. With the help of crowd-sourcing, we aim to capture the" wisdom of the crowds" to …

Premised upon the observation that MOOC and crowdsourcing phenomena share several
important characteristics, including IT mediation, large-scale human participation, and …

Crowdsourcing has emerged as a new method for obtaining annotations for training models
for machine learning. While many variants of this process exist, they largely differ in their …

In many decision-making scenarios, it is necessary to aggregate information from a number
of different agents, be they people, sensors or computer systems. Each agent may have …

Large-scale annotated corpora have yielded impressive performance improvements in
computer vision and multimedia content analysis. However, such datasets depend on an …