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2018 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

Game-Theoretic Analysis on the Number of Participants in the Software Crowdsourcing Contest

Authors : Pengcheng Peng, Chenqi Mou, Wei-Tek Tsai

Published in: Artificial Intelligence and Symbolic Computation

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

In this paper a game theoretic model of multiple players is established to relate the reward from the outsourcer and the number of participants in the software crowdsourcing contest in the winner-take-all mode via Nash equilibria of the game. We show how to construct the payoff function of each participant in this game by computing his expected probability of winning sequential pairwise challenges. Preliminary experimental results with our implementations are provided to illustrate the relationships between the reward and the number of participants for three typical participant compositions.

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Metadata
Title
Game-Theoretic Analysis on the Number of Participants in the Software Crowdsourcing Contest
Authors
Pengcheng Peng
Chenqi Mou
Wei-Tek Tsai
Copyright Year
2018
Book
Artificial Intelligence and Symbolic Computation

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-99956-2

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-99957-9

Copyright Year: 2018

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99957-9_20

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