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SODA
2012
ACM
11 years 7 months ago
2012
ACM
We study the design and approximation of optimal crowdsourcing contests. Crowdsourcing contests can be modeled as all-pay auctions because entrants must exert effort up-front to e...
WWW
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2010
ACM
Crowdsourcing is a new Web phenomenon, in which a firm takes a function once performed in-house and outsources it to a crowd, usually in the form of an open contest. Designing ef...
AAAI
2012
11 years 7 months ago
2012
We examine designs for crowdsourcing contests, where participants compete for rewards given to superior solutions of a task. We theoretically analyze tradeoffs between the expecta...
SIGKDD
2000
13 years 4 months ago
2000
Kernel Miner is a new data-mining tool based on building the optimal decision forest. The tool won second place in the KDD'99 Classifier Learning Contest, August 1999. We des...
AAAI
2012
11 years 7 months ago
2012
In recent times, crowdsourcing over social networks has emerged as an active tool for complex task execution. In this paper, we address the problem faced by a planner to incentivi...