Zhifang Liao¹, Hao Gu¹, Shichao Zhang¹, Ronghui Mo¹, Yan Zhang^2,*

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.37, No.1, pp. 599-618, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.036794

Abstract Context-Sensitive Task (CST) is a complex task type in crowdsourcing, such as handwriting recognition, route plan, and audio transcription. The current result inference algorithms can perform well in simple crowdsourcing tasks, but cannot obtain high-quality inference results for CSTs. The conventional method to solve CSTs is to divide a CST into multiple independent simple subtasks for crowdsourcing, but this method ignores the context correlation among subtasks and reduces the quality of result inference. To solve this problem, we propose a result inference algorithm based on the Partially ordered set and Tree augmented naive Bayes Infer (P&T-Inf) for CSTs. Firstly, we… More >

Yihuai Liang, Yan Li, Byeong-Seok Shin^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.68, No.3, pp. 2825-2842, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.016682

Abstract A centralized trusted execution environment (TEE) has been extensively studied to provide secure and trusted computing. However, a TEE might become a throughput bottleneck if it is used to evaluate data quality when collecting large-scale data in a crowdsourcing system. It may also have security problems compromised by attackers. Here, we propose a scheme, named dTEE, for building a platform for providing distributed trusted computing by leveraging TEEs. The platform is used as an infrastructure of trusted computations for blockchain-based crowdsourcing systems, especially to securely evaluate data quality and manage remuneration: these operations are handled by a TEE group. First,… More >

Weijin Jiang^1,2, Xiaoliang Liu^1,2,*, Dejia Shi¹, Junpeng Chen^1,2, Yongxia Sun^1,2, Liang Guo³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.68, No.2, pp. 1769-1784, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.016609

Abstract Crowd-Sensing is an innovative data acquisition method that combines the perception of mobile devices with the idea of crowdsourcing. It is a new application mode under the development of the Internet of Things. The perceptual data that mobile users can provide is limited. Multiple crowdsourcing parties will share this limited data, but the cost that the crowdsourcing party can pay is limited, and enough mobile users are needed to complete the perceptual task, making the group wisdom is really played. In this process, there is bound to be a game between the crowds and the mobile users. Most of the… More >

Zhifang Liao¹, Xin Xu¹, Peng Lan¹, Liu Yang¹, Yan Zhang², Xiaoping Fan^3,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.66, No.2, pp. 1379-1396, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.011995

Abstract In the context of the continuous development of the Internet, crowdsourcing has received continuous attention as a new cooperation model based on the relationship between enterprises, the public and society. Among them, a reasonably designed recommendation algorithm can recommend a batch of suitable workers for crowdsourcing tasks to improve the final task completion quality. Therefore, this paper proposes a crowdsourcing recommendation framework based on workers’ influence (CRBI). This crowdsourcing framework completes the entire process design from task distribution, worker recommendation, and result return through processes such as worker behavior analysis, task characteristics construction, and cost optimization. In this paper, a… More >

Joseph J. Knadler¹, Daniel J. Penny¹, Tyler H. Harris², Gary D. Webb³, Antonio G. Cabrera^1,4, William B. Kyle¹

Congenital Heart Disease, Vol.13, No.5, pp. 794-798, 2018, DOI:10.1111/chd.12669

Abstract Objective: The growing body of medical literature in pediatric cardiology has made it increasingly difficult for individual providers to stay abreast of the most current, meaningful articles to help guide practice. Crowdsourcing represents a collaborative process of obtaining information from a large group of individuals, typically from an online or web‐based community, and could serve a potential mechanism to pool indi‐ vidual efforts to combat this issue. This study aimed to utilize crowdsourcing as a novel way to generate a list of the most relevant, current publications in congenital heart disease, utilizing input from an international group of professionals in… More >

Jinlin Wang¹, Xing Wang^{1, *}, Yuchen Yang¹, Hongli Zhang¹, Binxing Fang¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.62, No.3, pp. 1053-1075, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.08675

Abstract Web information system (WIS) is frequently-used and indispensable in daily social life. WIS provides information services in many scenarios, such as electronic commerce, communities, and edutainment. Data cleaning plays an essential role in various WIS scenarios to improve the quality of data service. In this paper, we present a review of the state-of-the-art methods for data cleaning in WIS. According to the characteristics of data cleaning, we extract the critical elements of WIS, such as interactive objects, application scenarios, and core technology, to classify the existing works. Then, after elaborating and analyzing each category, we summarize the descriptions and challenges… More >

Tiejun Wang¹, Tao Wu^1,*, Amir Homayoon Ashrafzadeh², Jia He¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.57, No.1, pp. 81-96, 2018, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2018.03259

Abstract Crowdsourcing is widely used in various fields to collect goods and services from large participants. Evaluating teaching quality by collecting feedback from experts or students after class is not only delayed but also not accurate. In this paper, we present a crowdsourcing-based framework to evaluate teaching quality in the classroom using a weighted average operator to aggregate information from students’ questionnaires described by linguistic 2-tuple terms. Then we define crowd grade based on similarity degree to distinguish contribution from different students and minimize the abnormal students’ impact on the evaluation. The crowd grade would be updated at the end of… More >