Title
Predictive Task Assignment in Spatial Crowdsourcing: A Data-driven Approach
Abstract
With the rapid development of mobile networks and the widespread usage of mobile devices, spatial crowdsourcing, which refers to assigning location-based tasks to moving workers, has drawn increasing attention. One of the major issues in spatial crowdsourcing is task assignment, which allocates tasks to appropriate workers. However, existing works generally assume the static offline scenarios, where the spatio-temporal information of all the workers and tasks is determined and known a priori. Ignorance of the dynamic spatio-temporal distributions of workers and tasks can often lead to poor assignment results. In this work we study a novel spatial crowdsourcing problem, namely Predictive Task Assignment (PTA), which aims to maximize the number of assigned tasks by taking into account both current and future workers/tasks that enter the system dynamically with location unknown in advance. We propose a two-phase data-driven framework. The prediction phase hybrids different learning models to predict the locations and routes of future workers and designs a graph embedding approach to estimate the distribution of future tasks. In the assignment component, we propose both greedy algorithm for large-scale applications and optimal algorithm with graph partition based decomposition. Extensive experiments on two real datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of our framework.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/ICDE48307.2020.00009
2020 IEEE 36th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE)
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
prediction,task assignment,spatial crowdsourcing
Conference
1063-6382
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-7281-2904-4
2
0.38
References 
Authors
15
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yan Zhao1459.79
Kai Zheng293669.43
Yue Cui382.15
Han Su417112.27
Feida Zhu5121267.23
Xiaofang Zhou65381342.70