With the popularity of mobile social networking and the emergence of ideas such as
participatory sensing, mobile crowdsourcing has the potential to help tackle new problems in …

This chapter reviews several examples of how (machine and human) resources of a
(mobile) crowd of people with separately owned devices can be pooled together and …

Crowdsourcing has become an important problem-solving technique, for both traditional and
mobile applications. There have been work on crowdsourcing particular database …

Crowd computing is a common name for variety of methods to solve problems with a help of
large, undefined groups of people communicating via Internet. It is becoming widely used …

Spatial crowdsourcing is a potentially powerful method for incorporating human wisdom into
mobile computations to solve problems while exploiting the advantages of mobility and …

Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of
Doctor of Philosophy to the School of Engineering & Mathematic Sciences, College of …