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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

We consider schemes for obtaining truthful reports on a common but hidden signal from large groups of rational, self-interested agents. One example are online feedback mechanisms, where users provide observations about the quality of a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-16 Radu Jurca , Boi Faltings

Collaborative machine learning involves training models on data from multiple parties but must incentivize their participation. Existing data valuation methods fairly value and reward each party based on shared data or model parameters but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Rachael Hwee Ling Sim , Yehong Zhang , Trong Nghia Hoang , Xinyi Xu , Bryan Kian Hsiang Low , Patrick Jaillet

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

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

Mobile crowdsensing has emerged as an efficient sensing paradigm which combines the crowd intelligence and the sensing power of mobile devices, e.g.,~mobile phones and Internet of Things (IoT) gadgets. This article addresses the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-02-16 Mohammad Abu Alsheikh , Yutao Jiao , Dusit Niyato , Ping Wang , Derek Leong , Zhu Han

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

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

Participatory sensing is a powerful paradigm which takes advantage of smartphones to collect and analyze data beyond the scale of what was previously possible. Given that participatory sensing systems rely completely on the users'…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-28 Francesco Restuccia , Sajal K. Das , Jamie Payton

Mobile crowdsensing (MCS) counting on the mobility of massive workers helps the requestor accomplish various sensing tasks with more flexibility and lower cost. However, for the conventional MCS, the large consumption of communication…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Qin Hu , Zhilin Wang , Minghui Xu , Xiuzhen Cheng

Vehicular mobile crowd sensing is a fast-emerging paradigm to collect data about the environment by mounting sensors on vehicles such as taxis. An important problem in vehicular crowd sensing is to design payment mechanisms to incentivize…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-17 Susu Xu , Weiguang Mao , Yue Cao , Hae Young Noh , Nihar B. Shah

Preserving the privacy of preferences (or rewards) of a sequential decision-making agent when decisions are observable is crucial in many physical and cybersecurity domains. For instance, in wildlife monitoring, agents must allocate…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Shashank Reddy Chirra , Pradeep Varakantham , Praveen Paruchuri

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

Reinforcement learning (RL) systems typically optimize scalar reward functions that assume precise and reliable evaluation of outcomes. However, real-world objectives--especially those derived from human preferences--are often uncertain,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Disha Singha

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

Mobile Crowdsensing is a promising paradigm for ubiquitous sensing, which explores the tremendous data collected by mobile smart devices with prominent spatial-temporal coverage. As a fundamental property of Mobile Crowdsensing Systems,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-01-10 Cong Zhao , Xinyu Yang , Wei Yu , Xianghua Yao , Jie Lin , Xin Li

Mobile crowdsensing harnesses the sensing power of modern smartphones to collect and analyze data beyond the scale of what was previously possible. In a mobile crowdsensing system, it is paramount to incentivize smartphone users to provide…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Francesco Restuccia , Pierluca Ferraro , Simone Silvestri , Sajal K. Das , Giuseppe Lo Re

Mobile Crowd Sensing (MCS) is a new paradigm of sensing, which can achieve a flexible and scalable sensing coverage with a low deployment cost, by employing mobile users/devices to perform sensing tasks. In this work, we propose a novel MCS…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-29 Xiaoru Zhang , Lin Gao , Bin Cao , Zhang Li , Mengjing Wang

We consider crowdsourcing problems where the users are asked to provide evaluations for items; the user evaluations are then used directly, or aggregated into a consensus value. Lacking an incentive scheme, users have no motive in making…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Luca de Alfaro , Marco Faella , Vassilis Polychronopoulos , Michael Shavlovsky

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