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Worker selection is a key issue in Mobile Crowd Sensing (MCS). While previous worker selection approaches mainly focus on selecting a proper subset of workers for a single MCS task, multi-task-oriented worker selection is essential and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2016-08-10 Bin Guo , Yan Liu , Wenle Wu , Zhiwen Yu , Qi Han

Mobile crowdsourcing refers to systems where the completion of tasks necessarily requires physical movement of crowdworkers in an on-demand workforce. Evidence suggests that in such systems, tasks often get assigned to crowdworkers who…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Ralf Bruns , Jeremias Dötterl , Jürgen Dunkel , Sascha Ossowski

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 recent proliferation of increasingly capable mobile devices has given rise to mobile crowd sensing (MCS) systems that outsource the collection of sensory data to a crowd of participating workers that carry various mobile devices. Aware…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-09 Haiming Jin , Lu Su , Klara Nahrstedt

Mobile crowdsensing (MCS) is a promising distributed sensing paradigm for future wireless networks, where MCS platforms (MCSPs) recruit mobile units (MUs) through monetary incentives for sensing data collection. While most existing studies…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Sumedh J. Dongare , Christo Kurisummoottil Thomas , Andrea Ortiz , Walid Saad , Anja Klein

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

The prosperity of smart mobile devices has made mobile crowdsensing (MCS) a promising paradigm for completing complex sensing and computation tasks. In the past, great efforts have been made on the design of incentive mechanisms and task…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-11-26 Yize Chen , Hao Wang

Crowdsourcing systems, in which numerous tasks are electronically distributed to numerous "information piece-workers", have emerged as an effective paradigm for human-powered solving of large scale problems in domains such as image…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-03-27 David R. Karger , Sewoong Oh , Devavrat Shah

Mobile Crowd Sensing (MCS) is the mechanism wherein people can contribute in data collection process using their own mobile devices which have sensing capabilities. Incentives are rewards that individuals get in exchange for data they…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Jowa Yangchin , Ningrinla Marchang

Crowdsourcing can be applied to the Internet-of-Things (IoT) systems to provide more scalable and efficient services to support various tasks. As the driving force of crowdsourcing is the interaction among participants, various incentive…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Duin Baek , Jing Chen , Bong Jun Choi

Crowdsourcing models applied to work on mobile devices continuously reach new ways of solving sophisticated problems, now with a use of portable advanced devices, where users are not limited to a stationary use. There exists an open problem…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-05-29 Oskar Jarczyk

Mobile Crowdsourcing (MCS) photo-based is an arising field of interest and a trending topic in the domain of ubiquitous computing. It has recently drawn substantial attention of the smart cities and urban computing communities. In fact, the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Aymen Hamrouni , Hakim Ghazzai , Mounir Frikha , Yehia Massoud

The widespread use of mobile devices propels the development of new-fashioned video applications like 3D (3-Dimensional) stereo video and mobile cloud game via web or App, exerting more pressure on current mobile access network. To address…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Xiaotong Wu , Lianyong Qi , Xiaolong Xu , Shui Yu , Wanchun Dou , Xuyun Zhang

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

This paper examines the problem of distributing rewards on social networks to improve the efficiency of crowdsourcing tasks for sponsors. To complete the tasks efficiently, we aim to design reward mechanisms that incentivize early-joining…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Junjie Zheng , Xu Ge , Bin Li , Dengji Zhao

Task allocation is a major challenge in Mobile Crowd Sensing (MCS). While previous task allocation approaches follow either the opportunistic or participatory mode, this paper proposes to integrate these two complementary modes in a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Jiangtao Wang , Feng Wang , Yasha Wang , Leye Wang , Zhaopeng Qiu , Daqing Zhang , Bin Guo , Qin Lv

As the driving force of crowdsourcing is the interaction among participants, various incentive mechanisms have been proposed to attract sufficient participants. However, the existing works assume that all the providers always meet the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2017-07-04 Duin Back , Bong Jun Choi , Jing Chen

Mobile Crowdsensing (MCS) is a sensing paradigm that has transformed the way that various service providers collect, process, and analyze data. MCS offers novel processes where data is sensed and shared through mobile devices of the users…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Murat Simsek , Burak Kantarci , Azzedine Boukerche

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

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