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A Truthful Budget Feasible Multi-Armed Bandit Mechanism for Crowdsourcing Time Critical Tasks

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A Truthful Budget Feasible Multi-Armed Bandit Mechanism for Crowdsourcing Time Critical Tasks
Motivated by allocation and pricing problems faced by service requesters on modern crowdsourcing platforms, we study a multi-armed bandit (MAB) problem with several realworld features: (a) the requester wishes to crowdsource a number of tasks but has a fixed budget which leads to a trade-off between cost and quality while allocating tasks to workers; (b) each task has a fixed deadline and a worker who is allocated a task is not available until this deadline; (c) the qualities (probability of completing a task successfully within deadline) of crowd workers are not known; and (d) the crowd workers are strategic about their costs. We propose a mechanism that maximizes the expected number of successfully completed tasks, assuring budget feasibility, incentive compatibility, and individual rationality. We establish an upper bound of O(B2/3 (K ln(KB))1/3 ) on the expected regret of the proposed mechanism with respect to an appropriate benchmark algorithm, where B is the total budget and ...
Arpita Biswas, Shweta Jain, Debmalya Mandal, Y. Na
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Type Journal
Year 2015
Where ATAL
Authors Arpita Biswas, Shweta Jain, Debmalya Mandal, Y. Narahari
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