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Mobile crowd sensing (MCS) is a new paradigm which leverages the ubiquity of sensor-equipped mobile devices such as smartphones, music players, and in-vehicle sensors at the edge of the Internet, to collect data. The new paradigm will fuel…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-10-01 Jiajun Sun

Mobile crowdsensing (MCS) has been intensively explored recently due to its flexible and pervasive sensing ability. Although many incentive mechanisms have been built to attract extensive user participation, Most of these mechanisms focus…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-15 Jiajun Sun

By opportunistically engaging mobile users (workers), mobile crowdsensing (MCS) networks have emerged as important approach to facilitate sharing of sensed/gathered data of heterogeneous mobile devices. To assign tasks among workers and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Houyi Qi , Minghui Liwang , Seyyedali Hosseinalipour , Xiaoyu Xia , Zhipeng Cheng , Xianbin Wang , Zhenzhen Jiao

The requirements of modern production systems together with more advanced robotic technologies have fostered the integration of teams comprising humans and autonomous robots. However, along with the potential benefits also comes the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Martina Lippi , Paolo Di Lillo , Alessandro Marino

In this study, we investigate the resource management challenges in next-generation mobile crowdsensing networks with the goal of minimizing task completion latency while ensuring coverage performance, i.e., an essential metric to ensure…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Yaru Fu , Yue Zhang , Zheng Shi , Yongna Guo , Yalin Liu

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

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

Multi-agent systems can be extremely efficient when working concurrently and collaboratively, e.g., for delivery, surveillance, search and rescue. Coordination of such teams often involves two aspects: selecting appropriate subteams for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Qingyuan Luo , Jie Li , Meng Guo

With the development of mobile sensing and mobile social networking techniques, Mobile Crowd Sensing and Computing (MCSC), which leverages heterogeneous crowdsourced data for large-scale sensing, has become a leading paradigm. Built on top…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2015-05-04 Bin Guo , Chao Chen , Daqing Zhang , Zhiwen Yu , Alvin Chin

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

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

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

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

Mobile Crowdsourcing (MC) is an effective way of engaging large groups of smart devices to perform tasks remotely while exploiting their built-in features. It has drawn great attention in the areas of smart cities and urban computing…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Aymen Hamrouni , Hakim Ghazzai , Turki Alelyani , Yehia Massoud

The problem of coordinated data collection is studied for a mobile crowdsensing (MCS) system. A mobile crowdsensing platform (MCSP) sequentially publishes sensing tasks to the available mobile units (MUs) that signal their willingness to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Bernd Simon , Andrea Ortiz , Walid Saad , Anja Klein

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

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

In mobile crowdsourcing (MCS), the platform selects participants to complete location-aware tasks from the recruiters aiming to achieve multiple goals (e.g., profit maximization, energy efficiency, and fairness). However, different MCS…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-27 Wei Shen , Xiaonan He , Chuheng Zhang , Qiang Ni , Wanchun Dou , Yan Wang

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

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