Eliciting Expert Advice in Service-Oriented Computing
OA Location
Author(s)
Gerding, Enrico
Larson, Kate
Jennings, Nick
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
We consider a setting where a consumer would like to elicit independent but costly reports from third-party experts about the reliability of a number of service providers. These reports can be of variable accuracy, but more accurate reports will be more costly to produce, and the consumer can fuse reports from several experts to choose the provider with the highest probability of success.We explore a number of mechanisms to address this setting, including scoring rules, and indicate the problems in obtaining both truth telling and inducing the experts to produce accurate reports. We present a partial solution to this problem, and discuss remaining challenges.
Date Issued
2009
Citation
Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce (AMEC 2009), 2009, pp.29-42
Start Page
29
End Page
42
Journal / Book Title
Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce (AMEC 2009)
Identifier
http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/267199/
Source
Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce (AMEC 2009)
Notes
Event Dates: May 12, 2009
Publication Status
Unpublished