Decision-Theoretic Control of Crowd-Sourced Workflows

Proceedings of the 24th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1168-1174

  Dai, Peng ^a   Mausam, ^a   Weld, Daniel S ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CROWDSOURCING; ITERATIVE METHODS; QUALITY CONTROL;

AMAZON'S MECHANICAL TURKS; AUTONOMOUS AGENT CONTROL; CROWD SOURCING; DECISION-THEORETIC; HUMAN INTELLIGENCE; HUMAN INTERVENTION; SUBTASK; WORK-FLOWS; WORKERS'; WORKFLOW CONTROL;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS;

EID: 85044862024     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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