• DocumentCode
    108348
  • Title

    Quality Control in Crowdsourcing Systems: Issues and Directions

  • Author

    Allahbakhsh, Mohammad ; Benatallah, Boualem ; Ignjatovic, Aleksandar ; Motahari-Nezhad, H.R. ; Bertino, Elisa ; Dustdar, Schahram

  • Author_Institution
    Univ. of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
  • Volume
    17
  • Issue
    2
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    March-April 2013
  • Firstpage
    76
  • Lastpage
    81
  • Abstract
    As a new distributed computing model, crowdsourcing lets people leverage the crowd´s intelligence and wisdom toward solving problems. This article proposes a framework for characterizing various dimensions of quality control in crowdsourcing systems, a critical issue. The authors briefly review existing quality-control approaches, identify open issues, and look to future research directions. In the Web extra, the authors discuss both design-time and runtime approaches in more detail.
  • Keywords
    distributed processing; quality control; software quality; crowdsourcing system; design-time approach; distributed computing model; quality control; runtime approach; Communities; Crowdsourcing; Electronic publishing; Encyclopedias; Quality control; crowdsourcing; crowdsourcing workflows; quality control;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Internet Computing, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1089-7801
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MIC.2013.20
  • Filename
    6488672