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In recent years, more and more systems have been designed to affect users’ decisions for realizing certain system goals. However, most of these systems only focus on affecting users’ short-term or one-off behaviors, while ignoring the maintenance of users’ long-term engagement. In this light, we intend to design a novel approach which focuses on incentivizing users’ long-term engagement. In this paper, inspired by the use of Markov Decision Process (MDP), we first formally model the process of a user’s decision-making under long-term incentives. Subsequently, we propose the MDP-based Incentive Estimation (MDP-IE) approach for determining the value of an incentive and the requirement of obtaining that incentive. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed approach can effectively sustain users’ long-term engagement. Furthermore, the experiments also demonstrate that incentivizing users’ long-term engagement is more beneficial than one-off or short-term approaches.
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Wu, S., Bai, Q. (2019). Incentivizing Long-Term Engagement Under Limited Budget. In: Nayak, A., Sharma, A. (eds) PRICAI 2019: Trends in Artificial Intelligence. PRICAI 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11670. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29908-8_52
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