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EndorTrust: An Endorsement-Based Reputation System for Trustworthy and Heterogeneous Crowdsourcing
Proceedings of the 58th IEEE Global Communications Conference (2015, San Diego, CA)
  • Chunchun Wu
  • Tony Tie Luo, Missouri University of Science and Technology
  • Fan Wu
  • Guihai Chen
Abstract

Crowdsourcing is a new distributed computing paradigm that leverages the wisdom of crowd and the voluntary human effort to solve problems or collect data. In this context, trustworthiness of user contributions is of crucial importance to the viability of crowdsourcing. Prior mechanisms either do not consider the trustworthiness or quality of contributions or have to assess it only after workers' submission of contributions, which results in irreversible effort expenditure and negative player utilities. In this paper, we propose a reputation system, EndorTrust, to not only assess but also predict the trustworthiness of contributions without wasting workers' effort. The key approach is to explore an inter-worker relationship called endorsement to improve trustworthiness prediction using machine learning methods, while also taking into account the heterogeneity of both workers and tasks.

Meeting Name
58th IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM 2015 (2015: Dec. 6-10, San Diego, CA)
Department(s)
Computer Science
Keywords and Phrases
  • Artificial intelligence,
  • Distributed computer systems,
  • Learning systems, Machine learning methods,
  • Reputation systems,
  • Wisdom of crowds,
  • Workers', Crowdsourcing
International Standard Book Number (ISBN)
978-147995952-5
Document Type
Article - Conference proceedings
Document Version
Citation
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
Rights
© 2015 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), All rights reserved.
Publication Date
12-1-2015
Publication Date
01 Dec 2015
Disciplines
Citation Information
Chunchun Wu, Tony Tie Luo, Fan Wu and Guihai Chen. "EndorTrust: An Endorsement-Based Reputation System for Trustworthy and Heterogeneous Crowdsourcing" Proceedings of the 58th IEEE Global Communications Conference (2015, San Diego, CA) (2015)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/tony-luo/30/