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Crowdsourcing Database Systems and Optimization

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It is rather inconvenient to interact with crowdsourcing platforms, as the platforms require one to set various parameters and even write code. Thus, inspired by traditional DBMS, crowdsourcing database systems have been designed and built.

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Li, G., Wang, J., Zheng, Y., Fan, J., Franklin, M.J. (2018). Crowdsourcing Database Systems and Optimization. In: Crowdsourced Data Management. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7847-7_6

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