Reward or penalty: Aligning incentives of stakeholders in crowdsourcing

J Xu, S Wang, N Zhang, F Yang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Crowdsourcing is a promising platform, whereby massive tasks are broadcasted to a crowd
of semi-skilled workers by the requester for reliable solutions. In this paper, we consider four …

Using truth detection to incentivize workers in mobile crowdsourcing

C Huang, H Yu, RA Berry… - IEEE transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mobile crowdsourcing platforms often want to incentivize workers to finish tasks with high
quality and truthfully report their solutions by providing proper rewards. Most existing …

Topic-aware incentive mechanism for task diffusion in mobile crowdsourcing through social network

J Xu, Y Zhou, G Chen, Y Ding, D Yang… - ACM Transactions on …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Crowdsourcing has become an efficient paradigm to utilize human intelligence to perform
tasks that are challenging for machines. Many incentive mechanisms for crowdsourcing …

[PDF][PDF] Incentives and truthful reporting in consensus-centric crowdsourcing

E Kamar, E Horvitz - Microsoft Res., Redmond, WA, USA, Tech. Rep …, 2012 - microsoft.com
Over the last five years, Web-based crowdsourcing platforms have become available for
providing programmatic access to populations of workers with diverse capabilities …

Strategic information revelation mechanism in crowdsourcing applications without verification

C Huang, H Yu, J Huang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We study a crowdsourcing problem, where a platform aims to incentivize distributed workers
to provide high-quality and truthful solutions that are not verifiable. We focus on a largely …

Quality-aware incentive mechanisms under social influences in data crowdsourcing

Z Shi, G Yang, X Gong, S He… - IEEE/ACM Transactions …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Incentive mechanism design and quality control are two key challenges in data
crowdsourcing, because of the need for recruitment of crowd users and their limited …

Incentive mechanism and rating system design for crowdsourcing systems: Analysis, tradeoffs and inference

H Xie, JCS Lui - IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Macrotasking crowdsourcing systems like Elance and Fiverr serve as efficient platforms for
requesters to outsource challenging and innovative tasks that require special skills to …

A misreport-and collusion-proof crowdsourcing mechanism without quality verification

K Li, S Wang, X Cheng, Q Hu - IEEE Transactions on Mobile …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Quality control plays a critical role in crowdsourcing. The state-of-the-art work is not suitable
for crowdsourcing applications that require extensive validation of the tasks quality, since it …

Online incentive mechanism for mobile crowdsourcing based on two-tiered social crowdsourcing architecture

J Xu, C Guan, H Wu, D Yang, L Xu… - 2018 15th Annual IEEE …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mobile crowdsourcing has become an efficient paradigm for performing large scale tasks.
The incentive mechanism is important for the mobile crowdsourcing system to stimulate …

Getting more for less: Optimized crowdsourcing with dynamic tasks and goals

A Kobren, CH Tan, P Ipeirotis… - Proceedings of the 24th …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
In crowdsourcing systems, the interests of contributing participants and system stakeholders
are often not fully aligned. Participants seek to learn, be entertained, and perform easy tasks …