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Dynamic Quality Management for Cloud Labor Services

Methods and Applications for Gaining Reliable Work Results with an On-Demand Workforce

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  • Presents a scalable and efficient quality management mechanism for cloud labor services
  • Includes a basic description of the fundamentals for cloud labor services
  • Complemented by various business cases from medical coding, product research, and optical character recognition
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP, volume 192)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XVI
  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Introduction

      • Robert Kern
      Pages 3-7
  3. Fundamentals of Cloud Labor Services

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9
    2. Cloud Labor Services

      • Robert Kern
      Pages 11-50
  4. Dynamic Quality Management for Cloud Labor Services

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 77-77
    2. Statistical Quality Control

      • Robert Kern
      Pages 79-92
    3. Core Model

      • Robert Kern
      Pages 93-112
    4. Model Variations

      • Robert Kern
      Pages 113-132
  5. Evaluation and Case Studies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 133-133
    2. Toolkit Development

      • Robert Kern
      Pages 135-139
    3. Evaluation of Core Model

      • Robert Kern
      Pages 141-163
    4. Evaluation of Model Variations

      • Robert Kern
      Pages 165-183
  6. Conclusion

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 185-185
    2. Conclusion

      • Robert Kern
      Pages 187-192
  7. Back Matter

    Pages 193-215

About this book

How can a scalable and efficient quality management mechanism for cloud labor services be designed in a way that it delivers results with a well-defined level of quality to the requester?

Cloud labor services are a specific form of crowdsourcing: A coordination platform serves as an interface between requesters who need to get work done and a large crowd of workers who want to perform work. An early example of such a platform is Amazon’s Web marketplace Mturk, on which service requesters can publish open calls for so-called human intelligence tasks (HITs).

Robert Kern’s work makes a considerable contribution toward solving the quality problem for scalable human work. On the basis of a comprehensive framework of cloud labor, he develops a set of methods to conceptually measure and aggregate the quality of human work results, implements a platform to put those methods to work, and evaluates their application in a number of very compelling, real-world scenarios successfully combining concepts from statistics, information technology, and management. Reading this book will be beneficial to novices in cloud labor services looking for orientation in this new field as well as to advanced researchers and practitioners developing cloud quality concepts.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Karlsruhe Service Research Institute, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Robert Kern

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eBook USD 39.99
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Softcover Book USD 54.99
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