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Spatial crowdsourcing (SC) is an increasing popular category of crowdsourcing in the era of mobile Internet and sharing economy. It requires workers to arrive at a particular location for task fulfillment. Effective protection of location…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Shun Zhang , Benfei Duan , Zhili Chen , Hong Zhong , Qizhi Yu

Spatial Crowdsourcing (SC) is a novel platform that engages individuals in the act of collecting various types of spatial data. This method of data collection can significantly reduce cost and turnover time, and is particularly useful in…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-04-27 Luan Tran , Hien To , Liyue Fan , Cyrus Shahabi

In this paper, we study a novel spatial crowdsourcing system where the workers' time availabilities and their spatial locations are known a priori. Consequently, the tasks assignment to workers is performed not only based on the current…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-08-03 Faranak Davoodi

Recently, with the rapid development of mobile devices and the crowdsourcing platforms, the spatial crowdsourcing has attracted much attention from the database community. Specifically, spatial crowdsourcing refers to sending a…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-09-07 Peng Cheng , Xun Jian , Lei Chen

In this paper, we study the privacy-preserving task assignment in spatial crowdsourcing, where the locations of both workers and tasks, prior to their release to the server, are perturbed with Geo-Indistinguishability (a differential…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Maocheng Li , Jiachuan Wang , Libin Zheng , Han Wu , Peng Cheng , Lei Chen , Xuemin Lin

Spatial crowdsourcing (SC) engages large worker pools for location-based tasks, attracting growing research interest. However, prior SC task allocation approaches exhibit limitations in computational efficiency, balanced matching, and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Kun Li , Shengling Wang , Hongwei Shi , Xiuzhen Cheng , Minghui Xu

With the rapid development of mobile devices and crowdsourcing platforms, the spatial crowdsourcing has attracted much attention from the database community. Specifically, the spatial crowdsourcing refers to sending location-based requests…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-10-27 Peng Cheng , Xiang Lian , Lei Chen , Jinsong Han , Jizhong Zhao

The proliferation of advanced mobile terminals opened up a new crowdsourcing avenue, spatial crowdsourcing, to utilize the crowd potential to perform real-world tasks. In this work, we study a new type of spatial crowdsourcing, called…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Ting Wang , Xike Xie , Xin Cao , Torben Bach Pedersen , Yang Wang , Mingjun Xiao

Spatial crowdsourcing refers to a system that periodically assigns a number of location-based workers with spatial tasks nearby (e.g., taking photos or videos at some spatial locations). Previous works on the spatial crowdsourcing usually…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-02-26 Peng Cheng , Xiang Lian , Lei Chen , Cyrus Shahabi

With the rapid development of Mobile Internet, spatial crowdsourcing is gaining more and more attention from both academia and industry. In spatial crowdsourcing, spatial tasks are sent to workers based on their locations. A wide kind of…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-04-23 Tianshu Song , Feng Zhu , Ke Xu

With the widespread diffusion of smartphones, Spatial Crowdsourcing (SC), which aims to assign spatial tasks to mobile workers, has drawn increasing attention in both academia and industry. One of the major issues is how to best assign…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Xuanhao Chen , Yan Zhao , Kai Zheng , Bin Yang , Christian S. Jensen

With the rapid development of mobile devices and the crowdsourcig platforms, the spatial crowdsourcing has attracted much attention from the database community, specifically, spatial crowdsourcing refers to sending a location-based request…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-10-27 Peng Cheng , Xiang Lian , Zhao Chen , Rui Fu , Lei Chen , Jinsong Han , Jizhong Zhao

Wireless power transfer (WPT) is a promising technology to prolong the lifetime of sensor and communication devices, i.e., workers, in completing crowdsourcing tasks by providing continuous and cost-effective energy supplies. In this paper,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Yutao Jiao , Ping Wang , Dusit Niyato , Jun Zhao , Bin Li , Dong In Kim

Crowdsourcing enables application developers to benefit from large and diverse datasets at a low cost. Specifically, mobile crowdsourcing (MCS) leverages users' devices as sensors to perform geo-located data collection. The collection of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Spyros Boukoros , Mathias Humbert , Stefan Katzenbeisser , Carmela Troncoso

Spatial crowdsourcing (SC) enables the assignment of location-based tasks to mobile users who must travel to specific locations to perform sensing or service activities. However, SC systems often operate in strategic environments where both…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Chattu Bhargavi , Vikash Kumar Singh , Alok Kumar Shukla

Crowdsourcing plays an essential role in the Internet of Things (IoT) for data collection, where a group of workers is equipped with Internet-connected geolocated devices to collect sensor data for marketing or research purpose. In this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Mengmeng Yang , Ivan Tjuawinata , Kwok Yan Lam , Jun Zhao , Lin Sun

Wireless power transfer (WPT) is a promising technology to prolong the lifetime of the sensors and communication devices, i.e., workers, in completing crowdsourcing tasks by providing continuous and cost-effective energy supplies. In this…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-30 Yutao Jiao , Ping Wang , Dusit Niyato , Bin Lin , Dong In Kim

Driven by the unceasing development of maritime services, tasks of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted maritime data collection (MDC) are becoming increasingly diverse, complex and personalized. As a result, effective task allocation for…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Xiaoling Han , Bin Lin , Zhenyu Na , Bowen Li , Chaoyue Zhang , Ran Zhang

Several works related to spatial crowdsourcing have been proposed in the direction where the task executers are to perform the tasks within the stipulated deadlines. Though the deadlines are set, it may be a practical scenario that majority…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Naren Debnath , Sajal Mukhopadhyay , Fatos Xhafa

Specialized worker profiles of crowdsourcing platforms may contain a large amount of identifying and possibly sensitive personal information (e.g., personal preferences, skills, available slots, available devices) raising strong privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Joris Duguépéroux , Tristan Allard
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