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Crowd sensing is a new paradigm that leverages pervasive sensor-equipped mobile devices to provide sensing services like forensic analysis, documenting public spaces, and collaboratively constructing statistical models. Extensive user…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-05-26 Jiajun Sun

Data sensing and gathering is an essential task for various information-driven services in smart cities. On the one hand, Internet of Things (IoT) sensors can be deployed at certain fixed locations to capture data reliably but suffer from…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Hanwei Zhu , Sid Chi-Kin Chau , Gladhi Guarddin , Weifa Liang

This paper overviews the state of the art, research challenges, and future opportunities in an emerging research direction: Social Sensing based Edge Computing (SSEC). Social sensing has emerged as a new sensing application paradigm where…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Daniel Zhang , Nathan Vance , Dong Wang

Mobile Crowd Sensing (MCS) is a new paradigm of sensing, which can achieve a flexible and scalable sensing coverage with a low deployment cost, by employing mobile users/devices to perform sensing tasks. In this work, we propose a novel MCS…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-29 Xiaoru Zhang , Lin Gao , Bin Cao , Zhang Li , Mengjing Wang

The precise characterization and modeling of Cyber-Physical-Social Systems (CPSS) requires more comprehensive and accurate data, which imposes heightened demands on intelligent sensing capabilities. To address this issue, Crowdsensing…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Wansen Wu , Weiyi Yang , Juanjuan Li , Yong Zhao , Zhengqiu Zhu , Bin Chen , Sihang Qiu , Yong Peng , Fei-Yue Wang

Mobile crowdsensing leverages mobile devices (e.g., smart phones) and human mobility for pervasive information exploration and collection; it has been deemed as a promising paradigm that will revolutionize various research and application…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-08-22 Kai Han , Chi Zhang , Jun Luo

To be able to measure relevant data for transport infrastructure monitoring and to obtain maintenance indicators in a crowd sensing-based fashion, a set of requirements (both from hardware and software points of view) needs to be satisfied.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-14 Fatjon Seraj

Internet-connected smart devices are increasing at an exponential rate. These powerful devices have created a yet-untapped pool of idle resources that can be utilised, among others, for processing data in resource-depleted environments. The…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Niroshinie Fernando , Chetan Arora , Seng W. Loke , Lubna Alam , Stephen La Macchia , Helen Graesser

Mobile Crowdsensing has shown a great potential to address large-scale problems by allocating sensing tasks to pervasive Mobile Users (MUs). The MUs will participate in a Crowdsensing platform if they can receive satisfactory reward. In…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Jiangtian Nie , Zehui Xiong , Dusit Niyato , Ping Wang , Jun Luo

Crowd sensing is a new paradigm which leverages the pervasive smartphones to efficiently collect and upload sensing data, enabling numerous novel applications. To achieve good service quality for a crowd sensing application, incentive…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-12-25 Jiajun Sun

The transition from CPS-based Industry 4.0 to CPSS-based Industry 5.0 brings new requirements and opportunities to current sensing approaches, especially in light of recent progress in Chatbots and Large Language Models (LLMs). Therefore,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Zhengqiu Zhu , Yong Zhao , Bin Chen , Sihang Qiu , Kai Xu , Quanjun Yin , Jincai Huang , Zhong Liu , Fei-Yue Wang

Mobile crowdsensing harnesses the sensing power of modern smartphones to collect and analyze data beyond the scale of what was previously possible. In a mobile crowdsensing system, it is paramount to incentivize smartphone users to provide…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Francesco Restuccia , Pierluca Ferraro , Simone Silvestri , Sajal K. Das , Giuseppe Lo Re

Mobile crowdsensing (MCS) is a promising distributed sensing paradigm for future wireless networks, where MCS platforms (MCSPs) recruit mobile units (MUs) through monetary incentives for sensing data collection. While most existing studies…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Sumedh J. Dongare , Christo Kurisummoottil Thomas , Andrea Ortiz , Walid Saad , Anja Klein

Mobile Crowdsourcing (MCS) photo-based is an arising field of interest and a trending topic in the domain of ubiquitous computing. It has recently drawn substantial attention of the smart cities and urban computing communities. In fact, the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Aymen Hamrouni , Hakim Ghazzai , Mounir Frikha , Yehia Massoud

Mobile crowdsensing (MCS) is a distributed sensing architecture that utilizes existing sensors on mobile units (MUs) to perform sensing tasks. A mobile crowdsensing platform (MCSP) publishes the sensing tasks and the MUs decide whether to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Sumedh J. Dongare , Patrick Weber , Andrea Ortiz , Walid Saad , Oliver Hinz , Anja Klein

The extreme pervasive nature of mobile technologies, together with the users need to continuously interact with her personal devices and to be always connected, strengthen the user-centric approach to design and develop new communication…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Franca Delmastro , valerio Arnaboldi , Marco Conti

Mobile Crowdsourcing (MCS) is the generalized act of outsourcing sensing tasks, traditionally performed by employees or contractors, to a large group of smart-phone users by means of an open call. With the increasing complexity of the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Aymen Hamrouni , Hakim Ghazzai , Turki Alelyani , Yehia Massoud

The simulation of the dynamical behavior of pedestrians and crowds in spatial structures is a consolidated research and application context that still presents challenges for researchers in different fields and disciplines. Despite…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2016-08-18 Giuseppe Vizzari , Stefania Bandini

Mobile on-body sensing has distinct advantages for the analysis and understanding of crowd dynamics: sensing is not geographically restricted to a specific instrumented area, mobile phones offer on-body sensing and they are already deployed…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-09-09 Daniel Roggen , Martin Wirz , Gerhard Tröster , Dirk Helbing

Collaborative perception, an emerging paradigm in autonomous driving, has been introduced to mitigate the limitations of single-vehicle systems, such as limited sensor range and occlusion. To improve the robustness of inter-vehicle data…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-26 Mingyi Lu , Guowei Liu , Le Liang , Chongtao Guo , Hao Ye , Shi Jin