Mobile Crowdsourcing

Mobile Crowdsourcing
Author: Jie Wu
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 456
Release: 2023-07-16
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3031323971

This book offers the latest research results in recent development on the principles, techniques and applications in mobile crowdsourcing. It presents state-of-the-art content and provides an in-depth overview of the basic background in this related field. Crowdsourcing involves a large crowd of participants working together to contribute or produce goods and services for the society. The early 21st century applications of crowdsourcing can be called crowdsourcing 1.0, which includes businesses using crowdsourcing to accomplish various tasks, such as the ability to offload peak demand, access cheap labor, generate better results in a timely matter, and reach a wider array of talent outside the organization. Mobile crowdsensing can be described as an extension of crowdsourcing to the mobile network to combine the idea of crowdsourcing with the sensing capacity of mobile devices. As a promising paradigm for completing complex sensing and computation tasks, mobile crowdsensing serves the vital purpose of exploiting the ubiquitous smart devices carried by mobile users to make conscious or unconscious collaboration through mobile networks. Considering that we are in the era of mobile internet, mobile crowdsensing is developing rapidly and has great advantages in deployment and maintenance, sensing range and granularity, reusability, and other aspects. Due to the benefits of using mobile crowdsensing, many emergent applications are now available for individuals, business enterprises, and governments. In addition, many new techniques have been developed and are being adopted. This book will be of value to researchers and students targeting this topic as a reference book. Practitioners, government officials, business organizations and even customers -- working, participating or those interested in fields related to crowdsourcing will also want to purchase this book.

Internationalization, Design and Global Development

Internationalization, Design and Global Development
Author: Nuray Aykin
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 537
Release: 2009-07-15
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3642027679

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Internationalization, Design and Global Development, IDGD 2009, held in San Diego, CA, USA, in July 2009 in the framework of the 13th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2009 with 10 other thematically similar conferences. The 57 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers accepted for presentation thoroughly cover the entire field of internationalization, design and global development and address the following major topics: cross-cultural user interface design; culture, community, collaboration and learning; internationalization and usability; ICT for global development; and designing for eCommerce, eBusiness and eBanking.

Privacy and Security for Mobile Crowdsourcing

Privacy and Security for Mobile Crowdsourcing
Author: Shabnam Sodagari
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 142
Release: 2023-12-21
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1003811418

This concise guide to mobile crowdsourcing and crowdsensing vulnerabilities and countermeasures walks readers through a series of examples, discussions, tables, initiative figures, and diagrams to present to them security and privacy foundations and applications. Discussed approaches help build intuition to apply these concepts to a broad range of system security domains toward dimensioning of next generations of mobiles crowdsensing applications. This book offers vigorous techniques as well as new insights for both beginners and seasoned professionals. It reflects on recent advances and research achievements. Technical topics discussed in the book include but are not limited to: Risks affecting crowdsensing platforms Spatio-temporal privacy of crowdsourced applications Differential privacy for data mining crowdsourcing Blockchain-based crowdsourcing Secure wireless mobile crowdsensing. This book is accessible to readers in mobile computer/communication industries as well as academic staff and students in computer science, electrical engineering, telecommunication systems, business information systems, and crowdsourced mobile app developers.

Mobile Crowdsensing

Mobile Crowdsensing
Author: Cristian Borcea
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2016-12-01
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1315352419

Mobile crowdsensing is a technology that allows large scale, cost-effective sensing of the physical world. In mobile crowdsensing, mobile personal devices such as smart phones or smart watches come equipped with a variety of sensors that can be leveraged to collect data related to environment, transportation, healthcare, safety and so on. This book presents the first extensive coverage of mobile crowdsensing, with examples and insights drawn from the authors’ extensive research on this topic as well as from the research and development of a growing community of researchers and practitioners working in this emerging field. Throughout the text, the authors provide the reader with various examples of crowdsensing applications and the building blocks to creating the necessary infrastructure, explore the related concepts of mobile sensing and crowdsourcing, and examine security and privacy issues introduced by mobile crowdsensing platforms. Provides a comprehensive description of mobile crowdsensing, a one-stop shop for all relevant issues pertaining to mobile crowdsensing, including motivation, applications, design and implementation, incentive mechanisms, and reliability and privacy. Describes the design and implementations of mobile crowdsensing platforms of great interest for the readers working in research and industry to quickly implement and test their systems. Identifies potential issues in building such mobile crowdsensing applications to ensure their usability in real life and presents future directions in mobile crowdsensing by emphasizing the open problems that have to be addressed.

Collaboration and Technology

Collaboration and Technology
Author: Nelson Baloian
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2014-08-01
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3319101668

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 20th Collaboration Researchers' International Working Group Conference on Collaboration and Technology, held in Santiago, Chile, in September 2014. The 16 revised papers presented together with 18 progress papers and 3 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 49 submissions. The papers published in proceedings of this year's and past CRIWG conferences reflect the trends in collaborative computing research and its evolution. There was a growing interest in social networks analysis, crowdsourcing and computer support for large communities in general. A special research topic which has been traditionally present in the CRIWG proceedings has been collaborative learning.

Advances and New Trends in Environmental Informatics

Advances and New Trends in Environmental Informatics
Author: Rüdiger Schaldach
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2019-10-31
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3030308626

This book is an outcome of the 33rd International Conference EnviroInfo 2019, held at the University of Kassel, Germany. It presents a selection of papers that describe innovative scientific approaches and ongoing research in environmental informatics and the emerging field of computational sustainability. The respective articles cover a broad range of scientific aspects including advances in core technologies such as earth observation, environmental modelling, big data and machine learning, as well as applications of ICT solutions intended to support societal transformation processes toward the more sustainable management of resource use, transportation and the energy supply. Given its scope, the book is essential reading for scientists, experts and students in these fields of research.

Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems

Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems
Author: José Pereira
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2019-06-05
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3030224961

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 19th IFIP International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems, DAIS 2019, held in Kongens Lyngby, Denmark, in June 2019, as part of the 14th International Federated Conference on Distributed Computing Techniques, DisCoTec 2019. The 9 full papers presented together with 2 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 28 submissions. The papers addressed challenges in multiple application areas, such as the Internet-of-Things, cloud and edge computing, and mobile systems. Some papers focused on middleware for managing concurrency and consistency in distributed systems, including data replication and transactions.

Crowd-Powered Mobile Computing and Smart Things

Crowd-Powered Mobile Computing and Smart Things
Author: Seng W. Loke
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 71
Release: 2017-02-27
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3319544365

This SpringerBrief provides a synergistic overview of technology trends by emphasizing five linked perspectives: crowd+cloud machines, extreme cooperation with smart things, scalable context-awareness, drone services for mobile crowds and social links in mobile crowds. The authors also highlight issues and challenges at the intersection of these trends. Topics covered include cloud computing, Internet of Things, mobile and wearable computing, crowd computing, the culture of thing sharing, collective computing, and swarm dynamics. The brief is a useful resource and a starting point for researchers, students or anyone interested in the contemporary computing landscape.

Mobile Social Networking and Computing

Mobile Social Networking and Computing
Author: Yufeng Wang
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 410
Release: 2014-09-05
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 146655276X

Recent advancements in mobile device technologies are revolutionizing how we socialize, interact, and connect. By connecting the virtual community with the local environment, mobile social networks (MSNs) create the opportunity for a multitude of new personalized services for mobile users. Along with that comes the need for new paradigms, mechanism

Emerging Research in Computing, Information, Communication and Applications

Emerging Research in Computing, Information, Communication and Applications
Author: N. R. Shetty
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 744
Release: 2017-11-15
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9811047413

This book presents the proceedings of International Conference on Emerging Research in Computing, Information, Communication and Applications, ERCICA 2016. ERCICA provides an interdisciplinary forum for researchers, professional engineers and scientists, educators, and technologists to discuss, debate and promote research and technology in the upcoming areas of computing, information, communication and their applications. The book discusses these emerging research areas, providing a valuable resource for researchers and practicing engineers alike.