Answering Planning Queries with the Crowd

Summary: Crowdsourcing subjective planning queries whose objectives resist formalization, constructing action/object sequences incrementally. An optimal-within-class question-selection algorithm minimizes crowd effort by adaptively eliciting the best next plan element. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 10920
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2013
Pagerank: 5.7251004e-05
Overall Rank: 7,018 | 51.86%
DOI: 10.14778/2536360.2536369

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Authors

1. Haim Kaplan (Tel Aviv University)
2. Ilia Lotosh (Tel Aviv University)
3. Tova Milo (Tel Aviv University)
4. Slava Novgorodov (Tel Aviv University)

BibTeX Citation

@article{kaplan_vldb13,
        title = {{Answering Planning Queries with the Crowd}},
        author = {Kaplan, Haim and Lotosh, Ilia and Milo, Tova and Novgorodov, Slava},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '13},
        volume = {6},
        number = {9},
        pages = {697--708},
        doi = {10.14778/2536360.2536369},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2536360.2536369},
        year = {2013}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
5,813	Efficient Algorithms for Crowd-Aided Categorization	2020	VLDB	6.0780519e-05
7,081	OASSIS: Query Driven Crowd Mining	2014	SIGMOD	5.7086247e-05
7,222	Hear the Whole Story: Towards the Diversity of Opinion in Crowdsourcing Markets	2015	VLDB	5.6679185e-05
7,989	Where To: Crowd-Aided Path Selection	2014	VLDB	5.5111036e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 11 of 11 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
5	Optimal Aggregation Algorithms for Middleware [Extended Abstract]	2001	PODS	0.0010828372
90	CrowdDB: Answering Queries with Crowdsourcing	2011	SIGMOD	0.00034951786
196	CrowdER: Crowdsourcing Entity Resolution	2012	VLDB	0.00025780596
250	Answering Queries using Humans, Algorithms and Databases	2011	CIDR	0.00023261164
251	Crowdsourced Databases: Query Processing with People	2011	CIDR	0.00023261113
743	So Who Won? Dynamic Max Discovery with the Crowd	2012	SIGMOD	0.00014421358
997	CrowdScreen: Algorithms for Filtering Data with Humans	2012	SIGMOD	0.00012755983
1,270	CDAS: A Crowdsourcing Data Analytics System	2012	VLDB	0.00011388453
2,409	Deco: A System for Declarative Crowdsourcing	2012	VLDB	8.6145078e-05
7,630	Pushing the Boundaries of Crowd-enabled Databases with Query-driven Schema Expansion	2012	VLDB	5.5783186e-05
9,148	A Cross-Service Travel Engine for Trip Planning	2011	SIGMOD	5.3138321e-05

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