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Crowdsourcing allows to instantly recruit workers on the web to annotate image, web page, or document databases. However, worker unreliability prevents taking a workers responses at face value. Thus, responses from multiple workers are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2013-07-31 Aditya Kurve , David J Miller , George Kesidis

This paper explores mobile crowdsensing, which leverages mobile devices and their users for collective sensing tasks under the coordination of a central requester. The primary challenge here is the variability in the sensing capabilities of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Abdalaziz Sawwan , Jie Wu

Mobile Crowd-Sensing (MCS) has appeared as a prospective solution for large-scale data collection, leveraging built-in sensors and social applications in mobile devices that enables a variety of Internet of Things (IoT) services. However,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-04-05 Nguyen Binh Truong , Gyu Myoung Lee , Tai-Won Um , Michael Mackay

The recent boom in crowdsourcing has opened up a new avenue for utilizing human intelligence in the realm of data analysis. This innovative approach provides a powerful means for connecting online workers to tasks that cannot effectively be…

Applications · Statistics 2024-02-29 Chen Jason Zhang , Yunrui Liu , Pengcheng Zeng , Ting Wu , Lei Chen , Pan Hui , Fei Hao

Designing effective incentive mechanisms in mobile crowdsensing (MCS) networks is crucial for engaging distributed mobile users (workers) to contribute heterogeneous data for various applications (tasks). In this paper, we propose a novel…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Houyi Qi , Minghui Liwang , Xianbin Wang , Liqun Fu , Yiguang Hong , Li Li , Zhipeng Cheng

Consider designing an effective crowdsourcing system for an $M$-ary classification task. Crowd workers complete simple binary microtasks whose results are aggregated to give the final result. We consider the novel scenario where workers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-12-14 Qunwei Li , Aditya Vempaty , Lav R. Varshney , Pramod K. Varshney

Crowd employment is a new form of short term employment that has been rapidly becoming a source of income for a vast number of people around the globe. It differs considerably from more traditional forms of work, yet similar ethical and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-11-10 Lisa Posch , Arnim Bleier , Fabian Flöck , Markus Strohmaier

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

We propose a Multi-Task Learning (MTL) paradigm based deep neural network architecture, called MTCNet (Multi-Task Crowd Network) for crowd density and count estimation. Crowd count estimation is challenging due to the non-uniform scale…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Abhay Kumar , Nishant Jain , Suraj Tripathi , Chirag Singh , Kamal Krishna

Mobile crowdsourced sensing (MCS) is a new paradigm which takes advantage of the pervasive smartphones to efficiently collect data, enabling numerous novel applications. To achieve good service quality for a MCS application, incentive…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-06-25 Dong Zhao , Xiang-Yang Li , Huadong Ma

Workers recruitment remains a significant issue in Mobile Crowdsourcing (MCS), where the aim is to recruit a group of workers that maximizes the expected Quality of Service (QoS). Current recruitment systems assume that a pre-defined pool…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Ahmed Alagha , Shakti Singh , Hadi Otrok , Rabeb Mizouni

In Wireless sensor networks data aggregation with hundreds and thousands of sensor nodes is very complex task. Recently, mobile agents have been proposed for efficient data dissemination in sensor networks. In the traditional client/server…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-07-16 Yashpal Singh , Kamal Deep , S Niranjan

Many companies now use crowdsourcing to leverage external (as well as internal) crowds to perform specialized work, and so methods of improving efficiency are critical. Tasks in crowdsourcing systems with specialized work have multiple…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2016-01-19 Avhishek Chatterjee , Michael Borokhovich , Lav R. Varshney , Sriram Vishwanath

Crowd simulation is a research area widely used in diverse fields, including gaming and security, assessing virtual agent movements through metrics like time to reach their goals, speed, trajectories, and densities. This is relevant for…

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

Crowdwork often entails tackling cognitively-demanding and time-consuming tasks. Crowdsourcing can be used for complex annotation tasks, from medical imaging to geospatial data, and such data powers sensitive applications, such as health…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-09-07 Akira Matsui , Emilio Ferrara , Fred Morstatter , Andres Abeliuk , Aram Galstyan

Mobile Crowdsensing has become main stream paradigm for researchers to collect behavioral data from citizens in large scales. This valuable data can be leveraged to create centralized repositories that can be used to train advanced…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-01-21 Michael Cho , Afra Mashhadi

Leveraging massive numbers of sensors in user equipment as well as opportunistic human mobility, mobile crowd sensing (MCS) has emerged as a powerful paradigm, where prolonging battery life of constrained devices and motivating human…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Xiaoyang Li , Changsheng You , Sergey Andreev , Yi Gong , Kaibin Huang

We propose a mobile crowdsourced sensors selection approach to improve the journey planning service especially in areas where no wireless or vehicular sensors are available. We develop a location estimation model of journey services based…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-12-24 Ahmed Ben Said , Abdelkarim Erradi , Azadeh Ghari Neiat , Athman Bouguettaya

Quality improvement methods are essential to gathering high-quality crowdsourced data, both for research and industry applications. A popular and broadly applicable method is task assignment that dynamically adjusts crowd workflow…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Danula Hettiachchi , Vassilis Kostakos , Jorge Goncalves