Smartphones have become the most pervasive devices in people's lives and are clearly
transforming the way we live and perceive technology. Today's smartphones benefit from …

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 …

With the popularity of sensor-rich mobile devices (eg, smart phones and wearable devices),
mobile crowdsourcing (MCS) has emerged as an effective method for data collection and …

Participatory sensing is an emerging paradigm in which citizens everywhere voluntarily use
their computational devices to capture and share sensed data from their surrounding …

Mobile sensing has become a promising paradigm for mobile users to obtain information by
task crowdsourcing. However, due to the social preferences of mobile users, the quality of …

A major challenge in mobile crowdsensing applications is the generation of false (or spam)
contributions resulting from selfish and malicious behaviors of users, or wrong perception of …

The main idea behind social participatory sensing is to leverage social friends to participate
in mobile sensing tasks. A main challenge, however, is the identification and recruitment of …

Abstract Mobile Crowd Sensing (MCS) is one of the most recent sensing paradigms that
gained its popularity thanks to the advances in mobile computing. A high number of mobile …

With the explosive popularity of mobile terminal devices, crowdsensing has become a novel
paradigm for thoroughly sensing the environment. A crucial issue in crowdsensing system …

With the proliferation of Mobile Crowd Sensing (MCS), many domain applications that
answer different sensing requests, have been benefiting from the availability of participants …