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A Financial Incentive Mechanism for Truthful Reporting Assurance in Online Crowdsourcing Platforms
Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research ( IF 5.318 ) Pub Date : 2021-07-26 , DOI: 10.3390/jtaer16060113
Alireza Mohammadi , Seyyed Alireza Hashemi Golpayegani

In today’s world, crowdsourcing is regarded as an effective strategy to deal with a high volume of small issues whose solutions can have their own complexities in systems. Moreover, requesters are currently providing hundreds of thousands of tasks in online job markets and workers need to perform these tasks to earn money. Thus far, various aspects of crowdsourcing including budget management, mechanism design for price management, forcing workers to behave truthfully in bidding prices, or maximized gains of crowdsourcing have been considered in different studies. One of the main existing challenges in crowdsourcing is how to ensure truthful reporting is provided by contributing workers. Since the amount of pay to workers is directly correlated with the number of tasks performed by them over a period of time, it can be predicted that strong incentives encourage them to carry out more tasks by giving untruthful answers (providing the first possible answer without examining it) in order to increase the amount of pay. However, crowdsourcing requesters need to obtain truthful reporting as an output of tasks assigned to workers. In this study, a mechanism was developed whose implementation in crowdsourcing could ensure truthful reporting by workers. The mechanism provided in this study was evaluated as more budget feasible and it was also fairer for requesters and workers due to its well-defined procedure.

中文翻译:

在线众包平台真实报告保证的财务激励机制

在当今世界,众包被视为处理大量小问题的有效策略,这些小问题的解决方案在系统中可能具有其自身的复杂性。此外,请求者目前在在线就业市场上提供数十万个任务,工人需要执行这些任务才能赚钱。迄今为止,众包的各个方面,包括预算管理、价格管理机制设计、迫使工人在投标价格中诚实行事,或众包的最大化收益已在不同的研究中得到考虑。众包现有的主要挑战之一是如何确保贡献者提供真实的报告。由于工人的工资数额与他们在一段时间内执行的任务数量直接相关,可以预见,强烈的激励会鼓励他们通过给出不真实的答案(提供第一个可能的答案而不进行检查)来​​执行更多的任务,以增加工资。但是,众包请求者需要获得真实的报告,作为分配给工作人员的任务的输出。在这项研究中,开发了一种机制,其在众包中的实施可以确保工人的真实报告。本研究中提供的机制被评估为更具预算可行性,并且由于其明确的程序,它对请求者和工作人员也更公平。众包请求者需要获得真实的报告,作为分配给工作人员的任务的输出。在这项研究中,开发了一种机制,其在众包中的实施可以确保工人的真实报告。本研究中提供的机制被评估为更具预算可行性,并且由于其明确的程序,它对请求者和工作人员也更公平。众包请求者需要获得真实的报告,作为分配给工作人员的任务的输出。在这项研究中,开发了一种机制,其在众包中的实施可以确保工人的真实报告。本研究中提供的机制被评估为更具预算可行性,并且由于其明确的程序,它对请求者和工作人员也更公平。
更新日期:2021-07-26
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