Local administrations and governments aim at leveraging wireless communications and
Internet of Things (IoT) technologies to manage the city infrastructures and enhance the …

Crowdsourcing as a model for distributed problem solving has been rapidly gaining in
popularity. In investigating what drives the solvers to participate in crowdsourcing, the extant …

Crowd delivery is an emerging concept that adds flexibility to the last mile toward the
customer. One factor that can hinder the success of such platforms is the availability of …

The era of journalism and the participation of the readers on online media websites have
changed online journalism. The research interest is now focused on removing the distinction …

An approach toward ath-oriented tirnii-driven place-{ t ment is proposed. We rst transform
the p acement with timing constraints to a Lagrange problem, A primal-dual a. ppro~ IS …

In the current era of data explosion, people's media have access to a large amount of
information through the Internet. How to generate effective and realistic news and let …

Crowdsourcing is a practice that is gaining more and more popularity nowadays, in line with
the rapid advancement of technologies that support the practice. A number of success …

The current paper investigates the design of a collaborative Mobile Cloud Computing model
to support the workflow of collecting, editing and publishing news reporting material, aiming …

Participant selection is a common and crucial function for mobile crowdsourcing (MCS)
systems or platforms. This paper introduces a generic framework, named GP-Selector, to …

We study whether the tasks currently proposed on crowdsourcing platforms are adequate to
mobile devices. We aim at understanding both (i) which crowdsourcing platforms, among the …