• PDS is a general-purpose algorithm for inducing the crowd to generate workflows for tasks specified by the requester.
• PDS guides workers through the process of converting large, complex tasks into microtasks appropriate for crowd markets.
• Once all the microtasks for a given component of the workflow are solved, a merge stage asks workers to recombine work back into a coherent single solution to the original task.
• Both stages rely on verification functions that determine when work needs to be checked or repeated.
• Turkomatic posts human intelligence tasks (HIT) on Amazon Mechanical Turk, though the algorithm is independent of this particular platform.

Additional Sections:

• Price-Divide-Solve
• Merge Phase
• Verification