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Mobile Crowdsourcing (MCS) is a novel distributed computing paradigm that recruits skilled workers to perform location-dependent tasks. A number of mature incentive mechanisms have been proposed to address the worker recruitment problem in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Jianxiong Guo , Qiufen Ni , Weili Wu , Ding-Zhu Du

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

To overcome the limited coverage in traditional wireless sensor networks, \emph{mobile crowd sensing} (MCS) has emerged as a new sensing paradigm. To achieve longer battery lives of user devices and incentive human involvement, this paper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-01 Xiaoyang Li , Changsheng You , Sergey Andreev , Yi Gong , Kaibin Huang

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

Crowdsensing, also known as participatory sensing, is a method of data collection that involves gathering information from a large number of common people (or individuals), often using mobile devices or other personal technologies. This…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Chattu Bhargavi , Vikash Kumar Singh

Task allocation or participant selection is a key issue in Mobile Crowd Sensing (MCS). While previous participant selection approaches mainly focus on selecting a proper subset of users for a single MCS task, multi-task-oriented participant…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2016-08-10 Yan Liu , Bin Guo , Yang Wang , Wenle Wu , Zhiwen Yu , Daqing Zhang

In mobile crowdsourcing (MCS), mobile users accomplish outsourced human intelligence tasks. MCS requires an appropriate task assignment strategy, since different workers may have different performance in terms of acceptance rate and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-09 Sabrina Klos , Cem Tekin , Mihaela van der Schaar , Anja Klein

Crowdsensing is a promising sensing paradigm for smart city applications (e.g., traffic and environment monitoring) with the prevalence of smart mobile devices and advanced network infrastructure. Meanwhile, as tasks are performed by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-09 Leye Wang , Han Yu , Xiao Han

We present SmartCrowd, a framework for optimizing collaborative knowledge-intensive crowdsourcing. SmartCrowd distinguishes itself by accounting for human factors in the process of assigning tasks to workers. Human factors designate…

Social robot navigation in crowded public spaces such as university campuses, restaurants, grocery stores, and hospitals, is an increasingly important area of research. One of the core strategies for achieving this goal is to understand…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Rohan Chandra , Haresh Karnan , Negar Mehr , Peter Stone , Joydeep Biswas

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

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

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

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

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

The analysis and control of large-population systems is of great interest to diverse areas of research and engineering, ranging from epidemiology over robotic swarms to economics and finance. An increasingly popular and effective approach…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Kai Cui , Anam Tahir , Gizem Ekinci , Ahmed Elshamanhory , Yannick Eich , Mengguang Li , Heinz Koeppl

Crowdsensing is an emerging paradigm of ubiquitous sensing, through which a crowd of workers are recruited to perform sensing tasks collaboratively. Although it has stimulated many applications, an open fundamental problem is how to select…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Feng Li , Jichao Zhao , Dongxiao Yu , Xiuzhen Cheng , Weifeng Lv

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)-assisted mobile crowdsensing (MCS) has emerged as a promising paradigm for data collection. However, challenges such as spectrum scarcity, device heterogeneity, and user mobility hinder efficient coordination…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Xianyang Deng , Wenshuai Liu , Yaru FuB , Qi Zhu

Data credibility is a crucial issue in mobile crowd sensing (MCS) and, more generally, people-centric Internet of Things (IoT). Prior work takes approaches such as incentive mechanism design and data mining to address this issue, while…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2017-09-13 Tie Luo , Leonit Zeynalvand

Smart devices with built-in sensors, computational capabilities, and network connectivity have become increasingly pervasive. The crowds of smart devices offer opportunities to collectively sense and perform computing tasks in an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-01-13 Jihun Hamm , Adam Champion , Guoxing Chen , Mikhail Belkin , Dong Xuan