CrowdMiner: Mining association rules from the crowd

Summary: CrowdMiner introduces a novel crowd-mining algorithm for association rules from crowd data, not static databases. An iterative, question-driven querying process maximizes knowledge gain, demonstrated via a Well-Being portal mining health trends among conference participants. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h3e264e0401d62416
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2013
Pagerank: 5.252096e-05
Overall Rank: 8,952 | 39.82%
DOI: 10.14778/2536274.2536288

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Yael Amsterdamer (Tel Aviv University)
2. Yael Grossman (Tel Aviv University)
3. Tova Milo (Tel Aviv University)
4. Pierre Senellart (Telecom ParisTech; University of Hong Kong)

BibTeX Citation

@article{amsterdamer_vldb13,
        title = {{CrowdMiner: Mining association rules from the crowd}},
        author = {Amsterdamer, Yael and Grossman, Yael and Milo, Tova and Senellart, Pierre},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '13},
        volume = {6},
        number = {12},
        pages = {1250--1253},
        doi = {10.14778/2536274.2536288},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2536274.2536288},
        year = {2013}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
7,500	Crowdsourced Data Management: Overview and Challenges	2017	SIGMOD	5.5083793e-05
7,884	Subjective Knowledge Base Construction Powered By Crowdsourcing and Knowledge Base	2018	SIGMOD	5.4335791e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 5 of 5 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
29	Fast Algorithms for Mining Association Rules	1994	VLDB	0.0005121339
92	CrowdDB: Answering Queries with Crowdsourcing	2011	SIGMOD	0.00034672523
259	Answering Queries using Humans, Algorithms and Databases	2011	CIDR	0.00022923243
473	Sampling Large Databases for Association Rules	1996	VLDB	0.00017673931
2,832	Crowd Mining	2013	SIGMOD	7.9590386e-05

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