PRINGL – Smart Society Project http://www.smart-society-project.eu "Hybrid and Diversity-Aware Collective Adaptive Systems: When People Meet Machines to Build a Smarter Society" Fri, 10 Feb 2017 14:56:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.2 http://www.smart-society-project.eu/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/favicon1.png PRINGL – Smart Society Project http://www.smart-society-project.eu 32 32 PRINGL – A domain-specific language for incentive management in crowdsourcing http://www.smart-society-project.eu/pringladomainspecificlanguage/ http://www.smart-society-project.eu/pringladomainspecificlanguage/#respond Thu, 12 Jan 2017 23:22:17 +0000 http://www.smart-society-project.eu/?p=3222 Continue reading →]]>

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. Currently, incentives are custom-developed and managed by each particular platform. This prevents incentive portability and cross-platform comparison. In this paper we present PRINGL – a domain-specific language for programming and managing complex incentive strategies for socio-technical platforms in general. It promotes re-use of proven incentive logic and simplifies modeling, adjustment and enactment of complex incentives for socio-technical systems. We demonstrate its applicability and expressiveness on a set of realistic use-cases and discuss its properties.

Citation: Ognjen Scekic, Hong Linh Truong, Schahram Dustdar: PRINGL – A domain-specific language for incentive management in crowdsourcing. Computer Networks 90: 14-33(2015).

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]]> http://www.smart-society-project.eu/pringladomainspecificlanguage/feed/ 0 Managing Incentives in Social Computing Systems with PRINGL http://www.smart-society-project.eu/managingincentiveswithpringl/ http://www.smart-society-project.eu/managingincentiveswithpringl/#respond Thu, 12 Jan 2017 21:50:47 +0000 http://www.smart-society-project.eu/?p=3182 Continue reading →]]>

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 comparing working conditions across different platforms as well as platform owners from attracting skilled workers. In this paper we present PRINGL, a domain-specific language for programming complex incentive strategies. It promotes re-use of proven incentive logic and allows composing of complex incentives suitable for novel types of socio-technical systems. We illustrate its applicability and expressiveness and discuss its properties and limitations.

Citation: Ognjen Scekic, Hong-Linh Truong, Schahram Dustdar, “Managing Incentives in Social Computing Systems with PRINGL”, 15th Intl. Conf. on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE), Thessaloniki, Greece, October, 2014.

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