Reputation systems are fundamental for assessing the quality of user contributions in
participatory sensing. However, naively associating reputation scores to contributions allows …

Participatory sensing is gaining popularity as a method for collecting and sharing
information from distributed local environments using sensor-rich mobile devices. There are …

Participatory sensing is a revolutionary paradigm in which volunteers collect and share
information from their local environment using mobile phones. The design of a successful …

Reputation systems help users evaluate information quality and incentivize civilized
behavior, often by tallying feedback from other users such as" likes" or votes and linking …

With the proliferation of sensor-embedded mobile computing devices, participatory sensing
is becoming popular to collect information from and outsource tasks to participating users …

Electronic devices we use on a daily basis collect sensitive information without preserving
user's privacy. In this paper, we propose the lord of the sense (LotS), a privacy preserving …

The ubiquity of mobile devices has brought forth the concept of participatory sensing,
whereby ordinary citizens can now contribute and share information from the urban …

Participatory sensing is a revolutionary new paradigm in which volunteers collect and share
information from their local environment using mobile phones. The inherent openness of this …

Some users may misbehave under the cover of anonymity by, eg, defacing webpages on
Wikipedia or posting vulgar comments on YouTube. To prevent such abuse, a few …

To motivate users' assistance for protecting others' location privacy by distributed K-
anonymity in Location-Based Service (LBS), many incentive mechanisms have been …