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Novel web-based socio-technical systems require incentives for efficient management and motivation of human workers taking part in complex collaborations. Incentive management techniques used in existing crowdsourcing platforms are not suitable for intellectually-challenging tasks; platform-specific solutions prevent both workers from comparing working conditions across different platforms as well as platform owners from attracting skilled workers. In this paper we present PRINGL, a domain-specific language for programming complex incentive strategies. It promotes re-use of proven incentive logic and allows composing of complex incentives suitable for novel types of socio-technical systems. We illustrate its applicability and expressiveness and discuss its properties and limitations.
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Scekic, O., Truong, HL., Dustdar, S. (2014). Managing Incentives in Social Computing Systems with PRINGL. In: Benatallah, B., Bestavros, A., Manolopoulos, Y., Vakali, A., Zhang, Y. (eds) Web Information Systems Engineering – WISE 2014. WISE 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8787. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11746-1_30
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