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Contextual Procurement in Online Crowdsourcing Markets
2014
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing
Designing pricing mechanisms for recruitment of workers is a central challenge in online crowdsourcing markets. We consider a novel and realistic setting for such markets, where the private cost of the workers and utility derived from them is unknown to the mechanism; however, a set of the workers' features can be observed before making the price offer. How should the offered price be adapted to maximize the utility from recruited workers, while minimizing the cost of payments and the idling
doi:10.1609/hcomp.v2i1.13195
fatcat:qm4ve3skjjdstahhbwbhnpdkjm