safina showkat, ara, John, Breslin and subhasis, thakur (2019) Secure and distributed crowd-sourcing task coordination using the blockchain mechanism. In: Internet and Distributed Computing Systems, IDCS 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (11874). Springer, Cham. ISBN 978-3-030-34914-1
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A complex crowd-sourcing problem such as open source software development has multiple sub-tasks, dependencies among the sub-tasks and requires multiple workers working on these sub-tasks to coordinate their work. Current solutions of this problem employ a centralized coordinator. Such a coordinator decides on the sub-task execution sequence and as a centralized coordinator faces problems related to cost, fairness and security. In this paper, we present a futuristic model of crowd-sourcing for complex tasks to mitigate the above problems. We replace the centralized coordinator by a blockchain and automate the decision-making process of the coordinator. We show that the proposed solution is secure, efficient and the computational overhead due to employing a blockchain is low.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Additional Information: | 12th International Conference, IDCS 2019, Naples, Italy, October 10–12, 2019, Proceedings |
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| Depositing User: | Safina Ara |
| URI: | https://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/id/eprint/18278 |

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