QoS-based task scheduling in crowdsourcing environments

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 7084 LNCS, Issue , 2011, Pages 297-311

  Khazankin, Roman ^a   Psaier, Harald ^a   Schall, Daniel ^a   Dustdar, Schahram ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

crowdsourcing; QoS agreements; scheduling; skill monitoring

Indexed keywords

CROWDSOURCING; ON-DEMAND ALLOCATIONS; OUTSOURCE; QUALITY OF WORK; SOFTWARE SERVICES; TASK-SCHEDULING; WEB SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENT; WORKLOAD VARIATION;

QUALITY OF SERVICE; SCHEDULING; SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS;

WEB SERVICES;

EID: 82055190002     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-25535-9_20     Document Type: Conference Paper

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