Crowdsourcing, a distributed human problem-solving paradigm is an active research area
which has attracted significant attention in the fields of computer science, business, and …

Crowdsourcing is a computing paradigm where humans are actively involved in a
computing task, especially for tasks that are intrinsically easier for humans than for …

We investigate the opportunities and challenges of the forth wave of digitalization, also
referred to as the Internet of Things (IoT), with respect to public transport and how it can …

Any important data management and analytics tasks cannot be completely addressed by
automated processes. These tasks, such as entity resolution, sentiment analysis, and image …

Modern servers have become heterogeneous, often combining multi-core CPUs with many-
core GPGPUs. Such heterogeneous architectures have the potential to improve the …

Fog computing is rapidly changing the distributed computing landscape by extending the
Cloud computing paradigm to include wide-spread resources located at the network edges …

Privacy leakage is a serious issue in spatial crowdsourcing in various scenarios. In this
paper, we study privacy protection in spatial crowdsourcing. The main challenge is to …

Smart cities provide new applications based on Internet of Things (IoT) technology.
Moreover, Software Defined Networks (SDNs) offer the possibility of controlling the network …

Systems enabling the continuous processing of large data streams have recently attracted
the attention of the scientific community and industrial stakeholders. Data Stream Processing …

Event detection is a research area that attracted attention during the last years due to the
widespread availability of social media data. The problem of event detection has been …