Exploitation and Confrontation: Sustainability Analysis of Crowdsourcing

doi:10.1109/TMC.2024.3463417

	Exploitation and Confrontation: Sustainability Analysis of Crowdsourcing
	Zhao, Hang 1; Wang, Shengling 1; Shi, Hongwei 1; Huang, Jianhui 2; Guo, Yu 1; Cheng, Xiuzhen 3
	2025-02-01
发表期刊	IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MOBILE COMPUTING
ISSN	1536-1233
卷号	24 期号:2 页码:614-626
摘要	Game theory is an effective analytical tool for crowdsourcing. Existing studies based on it share a commonality: the influence of players' decisions is bilateral. However, the status is broken by the zero-determinant (ZD) strategy, where the ZD player can unilaterally control the opponent's expected payoff. Thereby, crowdsourcing games trigger conclusions that differ from traditional ones. By addressing three questions, this paper is the first work to analyze the turbulence in crowdsourcing caused by the inequality between the requestor and the worker in the ZD game. The first question reveals the potential for the requestor to exploit the worker; the second question quantifies the worker's tolerance towards exploitation, providing a basis for confrontation; the third question serves as the cornerstone for maintaining the crowdsourcing, regulating the requestor's exploitative behavior. To answer these questions, we extend ZD strategies from binary games to continuous ones, not only revealing the requestor's dominance but also enriching the theoretical system of ZD strategies and broadening their application. Furthermore, we introduce the worker's dissatisfaction degree, identifying the exponential trend and decay rate, revealing optimal timing and speed for the worker's effective confrontation and maximum exploitation for the requestor. Numerical simulations have validated the effectiveness of our analyses.
关键词	Crowdsourcing Games Game theory Timing Sustainable development Mobile computing Costs Crowdsourcing zero-determinant (ZD) strategy large deviation theory
DOI	10.1109/TMC.2024.3463417
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
资助项目	National Natural Science Foundation of China[61772044] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[62293555] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[62402047] ; Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities[2233100006] ; Major Program of Natural Science Research Foundation ofAnhui Provincial Education Department[2022AH040148] ; Major Program of Science and Technology Innovation 2030 of China[2022ZD0117105]
WOS研究方向	Computer Science ; Telecommunications
WOS类目	Computer Science, Information Systems ; Telecommunications
WOS记录号	WOS:001433717000009
出版者	IEEE COMPUTER SOC
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文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.204/handle/2XEOYT63/40685
专题	中国科学院计算技术研究所期刊论文_英文
通讯作者	Wang, Shengling
作者单位	1.Beijing Normal Univ, Sch Artificial Intelligence, Beijing 100875, Peoples R China 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Comp Technol, Beijing 100190, Peoples R China 3.Shandong Univ, Sch Comp Sci & Technol, Jinan 250100, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Zhao, Hang,Wang, Shengling,Shi, Hongwei,et al. Exploitation and Confrontation: Sustainability Analysis of Crowdsourcing[J]. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MOBILE COMPUTING,2025,24(2):614-626.
APA	Zhao, Hang,Wang, Shengling,Shi, Hongwei,Huang, Jianhui,Guo, Yu,&Cheng, Xiuzhen.(2025).Exploitation and Confrontation: Sustainability Analysis of Crowdsourcing.IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MOBILE COMPUTING,24(2),614-626.
MLA	Zhao, Hang,et al."Exploitation and Confrontation: Sustainability Analysis of Crowdsourcing".IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MOBILE COMPUTING 24.2(2025):614-626.