Publications related to Using Incentives to Obtain Truthful Information

Predicting Survey Response with Quotation-based Modeling: A Case Study on Favorability towards the United States

Alireza Amirshahi, Saleh Baghersalimi, Jonathan Philippe Reymond

The acquisition of survey responses is a crucial component in conducting research aimed at comprehending public opinion. However, survey data collection can be arduous, time-consuming, and expensive, with no assurance of an adequate response rate. In this ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2023

Orthos: A Trustworthy AI Framework for Data Acquisition

Boi Faltings, Sujit Prakash Gujar, Dimitrios Chatzopoulos

Information acquisition through crowdsensing with mobile agents is a popular way to collect data, especially in the context of smart cities where the deployment of dedicated data collectors is expensive and ineffective. It requires efficient information el ...

Springer2021

Use of IoT sensing and occupant surveys for determining the resilience of buildings to forest fire generated PM2.5

Dusan Licina

Wildfires and associated emissions of particulate matter pose significant environmental and health concerns. In this study we propose tools to evaluate building resilience to extreme episodes of outdoor particulate matter using a combination of indoor and ...

2019

Adapting Governance Incentives to Avoid Common Pool Resource Underuse: The Case of Swiss Summer Pastures

Ivo Philippe Baur

The use of summer pastures in the European Alps provides much evidence against Hardin's prediction of the tragedy of the commons. For centuries, farmers have kept summer pastures in communal tenure and avoided its overuse with self-designed regulations. Du ...

2018

Elicitation and Aggregation of Crowd Information

Goran Radanovic

This thesis addresses challenges in elicitation and aggregation of crowd information for settings where an information collector, called center, has a limited knowledge about information providers, called agents. Each agent is assumed to have noisy private ...

EPFL2016

Incentive Mechanisms for Community Sensing

Boi Faltings, Radu Jurca, Jingshi Li

Sensing and monitoring of our natural environment are important for sustainability. As sensor systems grow to a large scale, it will become infeasible to place all sensors under centralized control. We investigate community sensing, where sensors are contr ...

Ieee Computer Soc2014

Harmonic Nanocrystals for Bio-Labeling: a Survey of Optical Properties and Biocompatibility

Sandrine Gerber, Davide Städler, Jean-Pierre Wolf, Solène Marcelle Françoise Marie Passemard, Jérôme Extermann, Luigi Bonacina, Daniel Rytz, Rachid Hadji

Nonlinear optical nanocrystals have been recently introduced as a promising alternative to fluorescent probes for multi-photon microscopy. We present for the first time a complete survey of the properties of the different nanomaterials proposed to date, de ...

American Chemical Society2012

Analyzing the Emergence of Semantic Agreement among Rational Agents

Karl Aberer, Zoltán Miklós

Todays complex online applications often require the interaction of multiple services that potentially belong to different business entities. Interoperability is a core element of such an environment, yet not a straightforward one. In this paper, we argue ...

IEEE Computer Society2011

Incentives for Answering Hypothetical Questions

Boi Faltings, Radu Jurca

Prediction markets and other reward mechanisms based on proper scoring rules can elicit accurate predictions about future events with public utcomes. However, many questions of public interest do not always have a clear answer. For example, facts such as t ...

2011

Collaborative Location Privacy with Rational Users

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Reza Shokri, Mathias Jacques Jean-Marc Humbert, Francisco De Meneses Neves Ramos Dos Santos

Recent smartphones incorporate embedded GPS devices that enable users to obtain geographic information about their surroundings by providing a location-based service (LBS) with their current coordinates. However, LBS providers collect a significant amount ...

Springer-Verlag Berlin2011