Method for Spatial Crowdsourcing Task Assignment Based on Integrating of Genetic Algorithm and Ant Colony Optimization

• Main Authors: Yang Wang, Chenxi Zhao, Shanshan Xu
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 2020-01-01
• Series: IEEE Access
• Subjects: Spatial crowdsourcing; task assignment; MQC-TA problem; MQC-GAC algorithm
• Online Access: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9049414/

With the rapid development of mobile networks and the proliferation of mobile devices, Spatial Crowdsourcing (SC) has attracted the interest of industry and research groups. In addition to considering the specific spatial constraints in the existing research spatial crowdsourcing, each task has an effective duration, operational complexity, number of workers required, and incentive budget constraints. In this scenario, we studied the MQC-TA (Maximum Quality and Minimum Cost Task Assignment) problem. Firstly, the worker incentive model is established. The MQC-GAC algorithm is designed according to the MQC-TA problem to maximize the task completion quality and minimize the incentive budget. The algorithm combined the fast convergence of Genetic Algorithm and the positive feedback mechanism of Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm. Finally, the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed method are verified by a comprehensive experiment on the data set.