Mitigating Herding in Hierarchical Crowdsourcing Networks

Han Yu, Chunyan Miao, Cyril Leung, Yiqiang Chen, Simon Fauvel, Victor R. Lesser & Qiang Yang

Scientific Reports 6, Article number: 4 (2016) doi:10.1038/s41598-016-0011-6 Keywords: Complex networks, Nonlinear phenomena

Abstract Hierarchical crowdsourcing networks (HCNs) provide a useful mechanism for social mobilization. However, spontaneous evolution of the complex resource allocation dynamics can lead to undesirable herding . . . → Read More: Mitigating Herding in Hierarchical Crowdsourcing Networks