Widely available digital technologies are empowering citizens who are increasingly well
informed and involved in numerous water, climate, and environmental challenges. Citizen …

Background Public engagement in health and biomedical research is being influenced by
the paradigm of citizen science. However, conventional health and biomedical research …

Emerging technologies and community empowerment have driven citizen science (CS)
projects. However, their impact remains vague, partly because of the difficulties in …

The purpose of this research is to assess the current state of citizen science projects and
reveal the role of volunteers in the research process. This is achieved by performing a …

Social media producers are currently having a fierce competition worldwide to increase their
revenues. To achieve this goal, they are investigating alternative ways to attract more users …

Despite increased acceptance of design science research, concerns about rigor and
relevance permeate the research community. One way to increase rigor is by codifying …

Volunteer geographical information (VGI), either in the context of citizen science or the
mining of social media, has proven to be useful in various domains including natural …

The facility location problem (FLP) is a complex optimization problem that has been widely
researched and applied in industry. In this research, we proposed two innovative …

The Web is now both an information repository and a cyberspace supported by a
participatory culture. In the domain of news and journalism, the Social Web has witnessed …

This work in progress proposes the use of vivid impressions of users to monitor the waiting
and service time in the provision of public and private services. The solution consists of an …