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Edixhoven, Tom (author), Qiu, S. (author), Kuiper, Lucie (author), Dikken, Olivier (author), Smitskamp, Gwennan (author), Gadiraju, Ujwal (author)In popular crowdsourcing marketplaces like Amazon Mechanical Turk, crowd workers complete tasks posted by requesters in return for monetary rewards. Task requesters are solely responsible for deciding whether to accept or reject submitted work. Rejecting work can directly affect the monetary reward of corresponding workers, and indirectly...conference paper 2021
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Qiu, Peng (author), Nunes, Breno (author), Vaidya, Kirit (author), van de Kaa, G. (author), Greeven, Mark (author)This paper investigates the energy service companies (ESCOs) in China from the perspective of technological capability (TC) development. The conventional capability development model of manufacturing in emerging economies has been adapted to examine the four dimensions of TC (investment, production, linkage and innovation) through a qualitative...journal article 2021
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Qiu, Xiujiao (author), Chen, J. (author), Deprez, Maxim (author), Cnudde, Veerle (author), Ye, G. (author), De Schutter, Geert (author)The microstructure of alkali-reactive aggregates, especially the spatial distribution of the pore and reactive silica phase, plays a significant role in the process of the alkali silica reaction (ASR) in concrete, as it determines not only the reaction front of ASR but also the localization of the produced expansive product from where the...journal article 2021
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Sylvestre, E. (author), Prévost, Michèle (author), Burnet, Jean Baptiste (author), Pang, Xiaoli (author), Qiu, Yuanyuan (author), Smeets, Patrick (author), Medema, G.J. (author), Hachad, Mounia (author), Dorner, Sarah (author)This study investigates short-term fluctuations in virus concentrations in source water and their removal by full-scale drinking water treatment processes under different source water conditions. Transient peaks in raw water faecal contamination were identified using in situ online β-D-glucuronidase activity monitoring at two urban drinking...journal article 2021
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Qiu, S. (author), Gadiraju, Ujwal (author), Bozzon, A. (author)Due to the coronavirus pandemic, remote work from home has rapidly become a necessity around the world, drastically changing the potential landscape for the future of work. Over the last couple of decades, microtask crowdsourcing has emerged as a viable means of carrying out remote online work to earn one’s living — an alternative to traditional...conference paper 2020
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van Alphen, G.A. (author), Qiu, S. (author), Bozzon, A. (author), Houben, G.J.P.M. (author)In online crowd mapping, crowd workers recruited through crowdsourcing marketplaces collect geographic data. Compared to traditional mapping methods, where workers physically explore the area, the benefit of using online crowd mapping is the potential to be cost-effective and time-efficient. Previous studies have focused on mapping urban objects...conference paper 2020
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Samiotis, I.P. (author), Qiu, S. (author), Mauri, A. (author), Liem, C.C.S. (author), Lofi, C. (author), Bozzon, A. (author)Human annotation is still an essential part of modern transcription workflows for digitizing music scores, either as a standalone approach where a single expert annotator transcribes a complete score, or for supporting an automated Optical Music Recognition (OMR) system. Research on human computation has shown the effectiveness of crowdsourcing...conference paper 2020
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Qiu, S. (author), Gadiraju, Ujwal (author), Bozzon, A. (author)The rise in popularity of conversational agents has enabled humans to interact with machines more naturally. Recent work has shown that crowd workers in microtask marketplaces can complete a variety of human intelligence tasks (HITs) using conversational interfaces with similar output quality compared to the traditional Web interfaces. In...conference paper 2020
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Qiu, S. (author), Gadiraju, Ujwal (author), Bozzon, A. (author)Crowdsourcing marketplaces have provided a large number of opportunities for online workers to earn a living. To improve satisfaction and engagement of such workers, who are vital for the sustainability of the marketplaces, recent works have used conversational interfaces to support the execution of a variety of crowdsourcing tasks. The...journal article 2020
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Sharifi Noorian, S. (author), Qiu, S. (author), Psyllidis, A. (author), Bozzon, A. (author), Houben, G.J.P.M. (author)Up-to-date listings of retail stores and related building functions are challenging and costly to maintain. We introduce a novel method for automatically detecting, geo-locating, and classifying retail stores and related commercial functions, on the basis of storefronts extracted from street-level imagery. Specifically, we present a deep...conference paper 2020
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Chang, Ni Bin (author), Hossain, Uzzal (author), Valencia, Andrea (author), Qiu, Jiangxiao (author), Zheng, Qipeng P. (author), Kaandorp, C. (author), Abraham, E. (author), ten Veldhuis, Marie-claire (author), van de Giesen, N.C. (author)The Food-Energy-Water (FEW) nexus for urban sustainability needs to be analyzed via an integrative rather than a sectoral or silo approach, reflecting the ongoing transition from separate infrastructure systems to an integrated social-ecological-infrastructure system. As technology hubs can provide food, energy, water resources via...review 2020
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Najafian, S. (author), Herzog, Daniel (author), Qiu, S. (author), Inel, O. (author), Tintarev, N. (author)Most recommender systems propose items to individual users. However, in domains such as tourism, people often consume items in groups rather than individually. Different individual preferences in such a group can be difficult to resolve, and often compromises need to be made. Social choice strategies can be used to aggregate the preferences of...conference paper 2020
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Chang, Ni Bin (author), Hossain, Uzzal (author), Valencia, Andrea (author), Qiu, Jiangxiao (author), Zheng, Qipeng P. (author), Kaandorp, C. (author), Abraham, E. (author), ten Veldhuis, Marie-claire (author), van de Giesen, N.C. (author)The Food-Energy-Water (FEW) nexus for urban sustainability needs to be analyzed via an integrative rather than a sectoral or silo approach, reflecting the ongoing transition from separate infrastructure systems to an integrated social-ecological-infrastructure system. As technology hubs can provide food, energy, water resources via...journal article 2020
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Qiu, S. (author), Bozzon, A. (author), Gadiraju, Ujwal (author)Searching the web to learn new things or gain knowledge has become a common activity. Recent advances in conversational user interfaces have led to a new research opportunity - that of analyzing the potential of conversational interfaces in improving the effectiveness of search as learning (SAL). Addressing this knowledge gap, in this...conference paper 2020
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Qiu, S. (author), Gadiraju, Ujwal (author), Bozzon, A. (author)Information overload is a problem many of us can relate to nowadays. The deluge of user generated content on the Internet, and the easy accessibility to a vast amount of data compounds the problem of remembering and retaining information that is consumed. To make information consumed more memorable, strategies such as note-taking have been found...conference paper 2020
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Lu, Jieyu (author), Qiu, Yubao (author), Wang, Xingxing (author), Liang, Wenshan (author), Xie, Pengfei (author), Shi, Lijuan (author), Menenti, M. (author), Zhang, Dongshui (author)The High Mountain Asia (HMA) region, ranging from the Hindu Kush and Tien Shan in the west to the Himalaya in the south with an altitude between 2000 and 8844 m, holds the largest reservoir of glaciers and snow outside Earth Polar Regions. In the last decades, numerous glaciers and lake areas there have undergone tremendous changes with water...journal article 2020
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Ahmed, N. (author), Qiu, T.D. (author), Bertels, K.L.M. (author), Al-Ars, Z. (author)BACKGROUND: In Overlap-Layout-Consensus (OLC) based de novo assembly, all reads must be compared with every other read to find overlaps. This makes the process rather slow and limits the practicality of using de novo assembly methods at a large scale in the field. Darwin is a fast and accurate read overlapper that can be used for de novo...journal article 2020
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Qiu, S. (author), Bozzon, A. (author), Houben, G.J.P.M. (author)This demo presents VirtualCrowd, a simulation platform for crowdsourcing campaigns. The platform allows the design, configuration, step-by-step execution, and analysis of customized tasks, worker profiles, and crowdsourcing strategies. The platform will be demonstrated through a crowd-mapping example in two cities, which will highlight the...conference paper 2020
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Qiu, S. (author), Gadiraju, Ujwal (author), Bozzon, A. (author)This demo presents TickTalkTurk, a tool that can assist task requesters in quickly deploying crowdsourcing tasks in a customizable conversational worker interface. The conversational worker interface can convey task instructions, deploy microtasks, and gather worker input in a dialogue-based workflow. The interface is implemented as a Web...conference paper 2020
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Qiu, S. (author), Gadiraju, Ujwal (author), Bozzon, A. (author), Houben, G.J.P.M. (author)The trend of remote work leads to the prosperity of crowdsourcing marketplaces. In crowdsourcing marketplaces, online workers can select their preferable tasks and then complete them to get paid, while requesters design and publish tasks to acquire their desirable data. The standard user interface of the crowdsourcing task is the web page,...conference paper 2020