Collaboration trumps homophily in urban mobile crowd-sourcing

• Main Authors: KANDAPPU, Thivya, MISRA, Archan, DARATAN, Randy Tandriansyah
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2017
• Subjects: Collaboration; Crowd-sourcing; Homophily; Social-ties; Databases and Information Systems; Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/3629; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/4631/viewcontent/cscwp524_kandappuA1.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This paper establishes the power of dynamic collaborative task completion among workers for urban mobile crowdsourcing. Collaboration is defined via the notion of peer referrals, whereby a worker who has accepted a location-specific task, but is unlikely to visit that location, offloads the task to...