Optimal crowdsourcing contests

Proceedings of the Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 856-868

  Chawla, Shuchi ^a   Hartline, Jason D ^b   Sivan, Balasubramanian ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE;

CONVENTIONAL METHODS; DESIGN OBJECTIVES; OPTIMAL AUCTION; OPTIMIZERS; VALUATION FUNCTION;

CROWDSOURCING;

EID: 84860151940     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1137/1.9781611973099.69     Document Type: Conference Paper

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