1. Assessing Workers Reliability in Crowd-sourced Computing using Bayesian Rules.
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Hussin, Masnida and Rozlan, Nur Aliya
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RELIABILITY in engineering , *BAYESIAN analysis , *CROWDSOURCING , *PROBLEM solving , *PROBABILITY theory - Abstract
Crowdsourcing become increasingly popular nowadays to Internet users. It been chosen as platform to solve computing problems which offer less policies with better business. Some of advantages in using the crowdsourcing platform are significant in time and cost used. Along with the good advantages, there is reliability issue concerned. It is raised when behaviour or commitments of crowd-workers in providing services are started to query, either it can be trusted or not. In this work, a probability model using Bayesian rule to assess workers reliability in crowdsourcing is proposed. Specifically, we formulate trust factor by using the Bayesian probability model for indicating the reliability of the available workers in the crowdsourcing platform. The process of prediction and hypothesis of workers' commitment are identified to relate with the crowd-sourced computing system. We designed the significant behavioural factors to measure the workers performance towards user satisfaction. We then developed an automation measurement system that used to verify Bayesian formulation towards workers performance. The automation-based web system is able to identify the workers' reliability values according to the input/response from the users. Optimistically, by using Bayesian probability model provides guidelines for designing trustworthy system in crowdsourcing platform. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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