Finish Them!: Pricing Algorithms for Human Computation
Summary: Introduces MDP-based algorithms that dynamically price human-computation tasks to meet deadlines at minimum cost or budgets at minimum latency. Online acceleration enables practical adaptive pricing, reducing costs by up to 30% over prior schemes. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Yihan Gao (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
- 2. Aditya Parameswaran (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
BibTeX Citation
@article{gao_vldb14,
title = {{Finish Them!: Pricing Algorithms for Human Computation}},
author = {Gao, Yihan and Parameswaran, Aditya},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '14},
volume = {7},
number = {14},
pages = {1965--1976},
doi = {10.14778/2733004.2733018},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2733004.2733018},
year = {2014}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3,231 | Truth Inference in Crowdsourcing: Is the Problem Solved? | 2017 | VLDB | 7.6191767e-05 |
| 3,971 | CLAMShell: Speeding up Crowds for Low-latency Data Labeling | 2016 | VLDB | 6.9835263e-05 |
| 5,813 | Efficient Algorithms for Crowd-Aided Categorization | 2020 | VLDB | 6.0780519e-05 |
| 6,580 | Fluid: A Blockchain based Framework for Crowdsourcing | 2019 | SIGMOD | 5.8364579e-05 |
| 7,357 | Crowdsourced Data Management: Overview and Challenges | 2017 | SIGMOD | 5.6346837e-05 |
| 7,729 | Subjective Knowledge Base Construction Powered By Crowdsourcing and Knowledge Base | 2018 | SIGMOD | 5.5574654e-05 |
| 10,029 | Human Factors in Crowdsourcing | 2016 | VLDB | 5.1741314e-05 |
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 265 | Human-powered Sorts and Joins | 2012 | VLDB | 0.00022935368 |
| 743 | So Who Won? Dynamic Max Discovery with the Crowd | 2012 | SIGMOD | 0.00014421358 |
| 767 | Human-Assisted Graph Search: It’s Okay to Ask Questions | 2011 | VLDB | 0.00014208622 |
| 997 | CrowdScreen: Algorithms for Filtering Data with Humans | 2012 | SIGMOD | 0.00012755983 |
| 1,270 | CDAS: A Crowdsourcing Data Analytics System | 2012 | VLDB | 0.00011388453 |
| 3,914 | Optimal Crowd-Powered Rating and Filtering Algorithms | 2014 | VLDB | 7.0204052e-05 |
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