Browsing by Author "Anand, Vijayalakshmi"

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Intelligent Task Assignment in a Crowdsourcing Platform
(Springer, 2018-11) Anand, Vijayalakshmi
Crowdsourcing is a process of judiciously selecting the right user (worker) from a large pool of online community who could solve the task. The undertaking of jobs by many online users (workers) simultaneously helps solving large-scale computational problems. After completion of the job, monetary reward would be offered to the user who has completed the job satisfactorily or efficiently. The main challenge in crowdsourcing platforms is to assign a task to a user as users are mainly available online and are unknown and unfamiliar to each other. To overcome this challenge, we have proposed a new algorithm for task assignment based on the trustworthiness of online users. Trustworthiness is calculated by using the belief and knowledge values (metrics) of individuals who have shown interest in taking up the task. We have used vector space model to find out that the person is knowledgeable to do the task at hand. The belief value for a user is calculated by using the reputation and the familiarity index of the user on the social media interactions. Tasks would be assigned to all the users whose trust value is above a specific threshold. We have evaluated the proposed algorithm on a social media application that we created for sharing expertise amongst the off-campus faculty colleagues of our university.
Motivation of participants on the crowdsourcing platform using intelligent agents
(Research Institute for Intelligent Computer Systems, 2020-03) Anand, Vijayalakshmi
Crowdsourcing is a model where individuals or organizations receive services from a large group of Internet users including ideas, finances, completing a complex task, etc. Several crowdsourcing websites have failed due to la ck of user participation; hence, the success of crowdsourcing platforms is manifested by the mass of user participation. However, an issue of motivating users to participate in crowdsourcing platform stays challenging. We have proposed a new approach, i.e. , reinforcement learning - based gamification method to motivate users. Gamification has been a practical approach to engaging users in many fields, but still, it needs an improvement in the Crowdsourcing platform. In this paper, the gamification approach is strengthened by a reinforcement learning algorithm. We have created an intelligent agent using the Reinforcement learning algorithm (Q - learning). This agent suggests an optimal action plan that yields maximum reward points to the users for their active pa rticipation in the Crowdsourcing application. Also, its performance is compared with the SARSA algorithm (On - policy learning), which is another Reinforcement learning algorithm.
Reputation-Based Reinforcement Algorithm for Motivation in Crowdsourcing Platform
(Springer, 2019-07) Anand, Vijayalakshmi
Crowdsourcing is a well-known model for solving tasks in several organizations in the recent times. While building, the crowdsourcing platform is simple, and its success depends on the amount of individuals taking part in it. We propose a brand new gamification methodology to draw folks to participate within the crowdsourcing platform. Reinforcement algorithm is employed in this gamification method to motivate the people. This reinforcement algorithm can direct a user to participate in some actions that yield maximum reward in a crowdsourcing platform. This gamification technique motivates user to participate in various activities in the crowdsourcing platform. The proposed algorithm is applied on a social media application that has been implemented for faculties to share their research and tutorial experience. We proved that participation of faculties in crowdsourcing platform improved after applying this gamification method.
Task assignment in Crowd sourcing using vector space model
(International Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics, 2017) Anand, Vijayalakshmi
Recently the crowd sourcing has become a well known model for doing different assignments in different field. But there are some challenges and issues. The important issues in crowd sourcing are the task assignment and quality. Assigning task to particular resource is a challenge as most of people are unfamiliar, unknown about crowd sourcing and maximum assignment is done online. We address this issue by finding the experts and assign the task based on their expertization. Here we assumed that expert people will always produce quality work. We used this technique in our social media application which is especially created for faculties .We have used a vector space model for finding experts which is normally used for retrieval of document based on the query in a search engines.