Where To: Crowd-Aided Path Selection

Summary: Introduces Routing Queries and Binary Routing Queries that decompose crowd-based path comparison into intersection-level direction choices. Budget-aware algorithms dynamically select questions to reduce route-selection difficulty, validated on real crowdsourcing data. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 11085
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2014
Pagerank: 5.5111036e-05
Overall Rank: 7,989 | 45.19%
DOI: 10.14778/2733085.2733105

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Authors

1. Chen Jason Zhang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
2. Yongxin Tong (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
3. Lei Chen (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

BibTeX Citation

@article{zhang_vldb14,
        title = {{Where To: Crowd-Aided Path Selection}},
        author = {Zhang, Chen Jason and Tong, Yongxin and Chen, Lei},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '14},
        volume = {7},
        number = {14},
        pages = {2005--2018},
        doi = {10.14778/2733085.2733105},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2733085.2733105},
        year = {2014}
}

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
7,357	Crowdsourced Data Management: Overview and Challenges	2017	SIGMOD	5.6346837e-05
9,401	CDB: Optimizing Queries with Crowd-Based Selections and Joins	2017	SIGMOD	5.2755515e-05
12,017	Spatial Crowdsourcing: Challenges, Techniques, and Applications	2017	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 12 of 12 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
196	CrowdER: Crowdsourcing Entity Resolution	2012	VLDB	0.00025780596
250	Answering Queries using Humans, Algorithms and Databases	2011	CIDR	0.00023261164
314	Making Database Systems Usable	2007	SIGMOD	0.00021574636
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
933	Question Selection for Crowd Entity Resolution	2013	VLDB	0.00013111293
997	CrowdScreen: Algorithms for Filtering Data with Humans	2012	SIGMOD	0.00012755983
1,381	Finding Time Period-Based Most Frequent Path in Big Trajectory Data	2013	SIGMOD	0.00010965263
1,810	CrowdDB: Query Processing with the VLDB Crowd	2011	VLDB	9.7021022e-05
5,143	An Online Cost Sensitive Decision-Making Method in Crowdsourcing Systems	2013	SIGMOD	6.3476753e-05
6,548	Query Optimization over Crowdsourced Data	2013	VLDB	5.8443704e-05
7,018	Answering Planning Queries with the Crowd	2013	VLDB	5.7251004e-05

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