PRINGL – A domain-specific language for incentive management in crowdsourcing

Abstract: Novel types of crowdsourcing systems require a wider spectrum of incentives for efficient motivation and management of human workers taking part in complex collaborations. Incentive management techniques used in conventional crowdsourcing platforms are not suitable for more intellectually-challenging tasks. Continue reading

Managing Incentives in Social Computing Systems with PRINGL

Abstract: Novel web-based socio-technical systems require incentives for efficient management and motivation of human workers taking part in complex collaborations. Incentive management techniques used in existing crowdsourcing platforms are not suitable for intellectually-challenging tasks; platform-specific solutions prevent both workers from Continue reading

Incentive Engineering through Subgraph Matching – with Application to Task Allocation

This work was presented at HAIDM 2015. The 2015 workshop on Human-Agent Interaction Design and Models was co-organised by SmartSociety. Abstract: We use provenance graphs to solve a problem within incentive engineering: motivating humans to accept proposals generated by agents. Continue reading