Presentation 2016-12-09
Incentive design in crowdsourcing as a multi-armed bandit problem
Shigeo Matsubara, Akihiko Itoh,
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Abstract(in English) We have examined to apply the multi-armed bandit (MAB) techniques to an incentive design problem in crowdsourcing. So far, researchers studied the effects of various incentives including financial and social ones. The effect of these incentives, however, may differ in different tasks. To overcome this difficulty, we take a data-driven approach combining exploration and exploitation instead of trying to find a universally effective incentive. We evaluated the performance of typical MAB algorithms by using word search puzzles. The experimental results show that applying the MAB algorithms is effective to obtain the appropriate incentive design. Moreover, we discuss the issues in realizing the collaboration of more than one requesters having the similar tasks.
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Keyword(in English) Crowdsourcing / Incentive / Multi-armed bandit problems / Data-driven problem solving
Paper # AI2016-23
Date of Issue 2016-12-02 (AI)

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Committee AI
Conference Date 2016/12/9(1days)
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Chair Toshiharu Sugawara(Waseda Univ.)
Vice Chair Tsunenori Mine(Kyushu Univ.) / Daisuke Katagami(Tokyo Polytechnic Univ.)
Secretary Tsunenori Mine(Ritsumeikan Univ.) / Daisuke Katagami(Shizuoka Univ.)
Assistant Yuichi Sei(Univ. of Electro-Comm.)

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Registration To Technical Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge-Based Processing
Language JPN
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Title (in English) Incentive design in crowdsourcing as a multi-armed bandit problem
Sub Title (in English) A case of more than one requesters
Keyword(1) Crowdsourcing
Keyword(2) Incentive
Keyword(3) Multi-armed bandit problems
Keyword(4) Data-driven problem solving
1st Author's Name Shigeo Matsubara
1st Author's Affiliation Kyoto University(Kyoto Univ.)
2nd Author's Name Akihiko Itoh
2nd Author's Affiliation Kyoto University(Kyoto Univ.)
Date 2016-12-09
Paper # AI2016-23
Volume (vol) vol.116
Number (no) AI-350
Page pp.pp.61-66(AI),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2016-12-02 (AI)