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Mobile crowdsensing is a people-centric sensing system based on users' contributions and incentive mechanisms aim at stimulating them. In our work, we have rethought the design of incentive mechanisms through a game-theoretic methodology.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Alessandro Di Stefano , Marialisa Scatà , Barbara Attanasio , Aurelio La Corte , Pietro Liò , Sajal K. Das

User studies are central to user experience research, yet recruiting participant is expensive, slow, and limited in diversity. Recent work has explored using Large Language Models as simulated users, but doubts about fidelity have hindered…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Siyang Liu , Sahand Sabour , Xiaoyang Wang , Rada Mihalcea

In order to stimulate secure sensing for Internet of Things (IoT) applications such as healthcare and traffic monitoring, mobile crowdsensing (MCS) systems have to address security threats, such as jamming, spoofing and faked sensing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-01-24 Liang Xiao , Donghua Jiang , Dongjin Xu , Ning An

Crowdsourcing with the intelligent agents carrying smart devices is becoming increasingly popular in recent years. It has opened up meeting an extensive list of real life applications such as measuring air pollution level, road traffic…

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Mobile crowdsensing engages a crowd of individuals to use their mobile devices to cooperatively collect data about social events and phenomena for special interest customers. It can reduce the cost on sensor deployment and improve data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Jianbing Ni , Kuan Zhang , Qi Xia , Xiaodong Lin , Xuemin Shen

The wide spread of mobile devices has enabled a new paradigm of innovation called Mobile Crowdsourcing (MCS) where the concept is to allow entities, e.g., individuals or local authorities, to hire workers to help from the crowd of connected…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Aymen Hamrouni , Hakim Ghazzai , Turki Alelyani , Yehia Massoud

Incentive mechanism plays a critical role in privacy-aware crowdsensing. Most previous studies on co-design of incentive mechanism and privacy preservation assume a trustworthy fusion center (FC). Very recent work has taken steps to relax…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-03 Zhikun Zhang , Shibo He , Jiming Chen , Junshan Zhang

The increasing demand for sensing, collecting, transmitting, and processing vast amounts of data poses significant challenges for resource-constrained mobile users, thereby impacting the performance of wireless networks. In this regard,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Yaoqi Yang , Hongyang Du , Zehui Xiong , Dusit Niyato , Abbas Jamalipour , Zhu Han

The popularity and applicability of mobile crowdsensing applications are continuously increasing due to the widespread of mobile devices and their sensing and processing capabilities. However, we need to offer appropriate incentives to the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Dimitris Chatzopoulos , Sujit Gujar , Boi Faltings , Pan Hui

In this paper, we propose FairCrowd, a private, fair, and verifiable framework for aggregate statistics in mobile crowdsensing based on the public blockchain. In specific, mobile users are incentivized to collect and share private data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Miao He , Jianbing Ni , Dongxiao Liu , Haomiao Yang , Xuemin , Shen

Worker recruitment is a crucial research problem in Mobile Crowd Sensing (MCS). While previous studies rely on a specified platform with a pre-assumed large user pool, this paper leverages the influenced propagation on the social network to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Jiangtao Wang , Feng Wang , Yasha Wang , Daqing Zhang , Leye Wang , Zhaopeng Qiu

Auctions have been employed as an effective framework for the management and the assignment of tasks in mobile crowdsensing (MCS). In auctions terminology, the clearance rate (CR) refers to the percentage of items that are sold over the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Maggie E. Gendy , Ahmad Al-Kabbany , Ehab F. Badran

Mobile crowdsensing (MCS) has emerged as a prominent trend across various domains. However, ensuring the quality of the sensing data submitted by mobile users (MUs) remains a complex and challenging problem. To address this challenge, an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Jiajie Li , Bo Gu , Shimin Gong , Zhou Su , Mohsen Guizani

Beyond data collection, future mobile crowdsensing (MCS) in complex applications must satisfy diverse requirements, including reliable task completion, budget and quality constraints, and fluctuating worker availability. Besides raw-data…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Houyi Qi , Minghui Liwang , Kaiwen Tan , Wenyong Wang , Sai Zou , Yiguang Hong , Xianbin Wang , Wei Ni

With the widespread adoption of Artificial intelligence (AI), AI-based tools and components are becoming omnipresent in today's solutions. However, these components and tools are posing a significant threat when it comes to adversarial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Ruba Nasser , Ahmed Alagha , Shakti Singh , Rabeb Mizouni , Hadi Otrok , Jamal Bentahar

The idea of social participatory sensing provides a substrate to benefit from friendship relations in recruiting a critical mass of participants willing to attend in a sensing campaign. However, the selection of suitable participants who…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-08-07 Haleh Amintoosi , Salil S. Kanhere

In recent years, there have been efforts to collect human contact traces during social events (e.g., conferences) using Bluetooth devices (e.g., mobile phones, iMotes). The results of these studies have enabled the ability to do the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-04-28 Phuong Nguyen , Klara Nahrstedt

Collaborative Mobile Crowdsourcing (CMCS) allows platforms to recruit worker teams to collaboratively execute complex sensing tasks. The efficiency of such collaborations could be influenced by trust relationships among workers. To obtain…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Zhongwei Zhan , Yingjie Wang , Peiyong Duan , Akshita Maradapu Vera Venkata Sai , Zhaowei Liu , Chaocan Xiang , Xiangrong Tong , Weilong Wang , Zhipeng Cai

The research on the efforts of combining human and machine intelligence has a long history. With the development of mobile sensing and mobile Internet techniques, a new sensing paradigm called Mobile Crowd Sensing (MCS), which leverages the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2014-01-15 Bin Guo , Zhiwen Yu , Daqing Zhang , Xingshe Zhou

Crowdsourcing is an effective method to collect data by employing distributed human population. Researchers introduce appropriate reward mechanisms to incentivize agents to report accurately. In particular, this paper focuses on Peer-Based…

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