Participatory sensing is a powerful paradigm that takes advantage of smartphones to collect
and analyze data beyond the scale of what was previously possible. Given that participatory …

Participatory sensing is now becoming more popular and has shown its great potential in
various applications. It was originally proposed to recruit ordinary citizens to collect and …

Smartphones are programmable and equipped with a set of cheap but powerful embedded
sensors, such as accelerometer, digital compass, gyroscope, GPS, microphone, and …

For the predicted growth of e-commerce, supply chains need to adapt to new conditions, so
that delivery can be fast, cheap and reliable. The key to success is the last-mile product …

We present SmartCrowd, a framework for optimizing task assignment in knowledge-
intensive crowdsourcing (KI-C). SmartCrowd distinguishes itself by formulating, for the first …

When personalities clash, teams operate less effectively. Personality differences affect face-
to-face collaboration and may lower trust in virtual teams. For relatively short-lived …

Crowdsourcing is a new computing paradigm that harnesses human effort to solve computer-
hard problems, such as entity resolution and photo tagging. The crowd (or workers) have …

Existing studies on task recommendation in crowdsourcing systems provide additional
insights into the field from their perspectives, methodologies, frameworks, and disciplines …

The popularity and applicability of mobile crowdsensing applications are continuously
increasing due to the widespread of mobile devices and their sensing and processing …

Efficient allocation of tasks to workers is a central problem in crowdsourcing. In this paper,
we consider a special setting inspired by spatial crowdsourcing platforms where both …