GeoTruCrowd: Trustworthy query answering with spatial crowdsourcing

GIS: Proceedings of the ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 304-313

  Kazemi, Leyla ^a   Shahabi, Cyrus ^b   Chen, Lei ^c  

^a MICROSOFT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

spatial crowdsourcing; trustworthy query answering

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION MECHANISM; CONFIDENCE LEVELS; CROWDSOURCING; GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATIONS; GREEDY APPROACHES; OPTIMAL ASSIGNMENT; OPTIMAL PERFORMANCE; QUERY ANSWERING;

AGGREGATES; MOBILE DEVICES; OPTIMIZATION;

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84893485211     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2525314.2525346     Document Type: Conference Paper

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