RTRC: a reputation-based incentive game model for trustworthy crowdsourcing service

TLDR: A game-based incentive mechanism, namely RTRC, is proposed to stimulate the crowds to contribute accurate information and to motivate the requesters to return accurate feedbacks and an evolutionary game is designed to model the dynamic of user-strategy selection.

Abstract: The ubiquity of mobile devices have promoted the prosperity of mobile crowd systems, which recruit crowds to contribute their resources for performing tasks. Yet, due to the various resource consumption, the crowds may be reluctant to join and contribute information. Thus, the low participation level of crowds will be a hurdle that prevents the adoption of crowdsourcing. A critical challenge for these systems is how to design a proper mechanism such that the crowds spontaneously act as suppliers to contribute accurate information. Most of existing mechanisms ignore either the honesty of crowds or requesters respectively. In this paper, considering the honesty of both, we propose a game-based incentive mechanism, namely RTRC, to stimulate the crowds to contribute accurate information and to motivate the requesters to return accurate feedbacks. In addition, an evolutionary game is designed to model the dynamic of user-strategy selection.