Collaboration trumps homophily in urban mobile crowdsourcing

• Main Authors: KANDAPPU, Thivya, MISRA, Archan, TANDRIANSYAH, Randy
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2017
• Subjects: Collaboration; Crowd-sourcing; Homophily; Social-ties; Computer Engineering; Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/5387; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/6391/viewcontent/Collaboration_trumps_homophily_in_urban_mobile_crowd_sourcing.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...