An Online Cost Sensitive Decision-Making Method in Crowdsourcing Systems

Summary: Online cost-aware framework for crowdsourcing estimates marginal profit in real time and terminates questions when future profit is non-positive. Introduces linear and generalized nonlinear profit models, enables batch HIT publication, and outperforms state-of-the-art on MTurk tasks. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4776
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2013
Pagerank: 6.3476753e-05
Overall Rank: 5,143 | 64.72%
DOI: 10.1145/2463676.2465307

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Authors

1. Jinyang Gao (National University of Singapore)
2. Xuan Liu (National University of Singapore)
3. Beng Chin Ooi (National University of Singapore)
4. Haixun Wang (Microsoft)
5. Gang Chen (Zhejiang University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{gao_sigmod13,
        title = {{An Online Cost Sensitive Decision-Making Method in Crowdsourcing Systems}},
        author = {Gao, Jinyang and Liu, Xuan and Ooi, Beng Chin and Wang, Haixun and Chen, Gang},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '13},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/2463676.2465307},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2463676.2465307},
        year = {2013}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
3,281	Cleaning Crowdsourced Labels Using Oracles for Statistical Classification	2019	VLDB	7.5706653e-05
3,904	QASCA: A Quality-Aware Task Assignment System for Crowdsourcing Applications	2015	SIGMOD	7.0304212e-05
7,989	Where To: Crowd-Aided Path Selection	2014	VLDB	5.5111036e-05
10,032	gMission: A General Spatial Crowdsourcing Platform	2014	VLDB	5.1741314e-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
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
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
1,810	CrowdDB: Query Processing with the VLDB Crowd	2011	VLDB	9.7021022e-05
2,165	Demonstration of Qurk: A Query Processor for Human Operators	2011	SIGMOD	9.0507521e-05
7,630	Pushing the Boundaries of Crowd-enabled Databases with Query-driven Schema Expansion	2012	VLDB	5.5783186e-05

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