Real-time cross online matching in spatial crowdsourcing

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Abstract

With the development of mobile communication techniques, spatial crowdsourcing has become popular recently. A typical topic of spatial crowdsourcing is task assignment, which assigns crowd workers to users' requests in real time and maximizes the total revenue. However, it is common that the available crowd workers over a platform are too far away to serve the requests, so some user requests may be rejected or responded at high money cost after long waiting. Fortunately, the neighbors of a platform usually have available resources for the same services. Collaboratively conducting the task allocation among different platforms can greatly improve the quality of services, but have not been investigated yet. In this paper, we propose a Cross Online Matching (COM), which enables a platform to "borrow" unoccupied crowd workers from other platforms for completing the user requests. We propose two algorithms, deterministic cross online matching (DemCOM) and randomized cross online matching (RamCom) for COM. DemCOM focuses on the largest obtained revenue in a greedy manner, while RamCom considers the trade-off between the obtained revenue and the probability of request being accepted by the borrowed workers. Extensive experimental results verify the effectiveness and efficiency of our algorithms.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2020 IEEE 36th International Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE 2020
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages1-12
Number of pages12
ISBN (Electronic)9781728129037
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Apr 2020
Event36th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE 2020 - Dallas, United States
Duration: 20 Apr 202024 Apr 2020

Publication series

NameProceedings - International Conference on Data Engineering
Volume2020-April
ISSN (Print)1084-4627

Conference

Conference36th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE 2020
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityDallas
Period20/04/2024/04/20

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