A Survey of General-Purpose Crowdsourcing Techniques

PhD Qualifying Examination


Title: "A Survey of General-Purpose Crowdsourcing Techniques"

by

Mr. Anand INASU CHITTILAPPILLY


Abstract:

Since Jeff Howe introduced the term Crowdsourcing in 2006, this human-powered 
problem-solving paradigm has gained a lot of attention and has been a hot 
research topic in the field of Computer Science. Even though a lot of work has 
been conducted on this topic, so far we do not have a comprehensive survey on 
most relevant work done in crowdsourcing field. In this report, we aim to offer 
an overall picture of the current state of the art techniques in 
general-purpose crowdsourcing. According to their focus, we divide this work 
into two parts, which are: incentive design and task assignment. For each part, 
we start with different problems faced in that area followed by a brief 
description of existing work and a discussion of pros and cons. Finally, we 
highlight the limitations of the current general-purpose crowdsourcing 
techniques and present some open problems in this area.


Date:			Wednesday, 26 July 2017

Time:                  	2:00pm - 4:00pm

Venue:                  Room 2611
                         Lifts 31/32

Committee Members:	Prof. Lei Chen (Supervisor)
 			Dr. Qiong Luo (Chairperson)
 			Dr. Yangqiu Song
 			Dr. Raymond Wong


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