In the Internet of Things (IoT) era, smart devices that are equipped with various types of
sensors can enable access to the IoT architecture through a cloud-inspired service model …

Task assignment is a central component in crowdsourcing. Organizational studies have
shown that worker motivation in completing tasks has a direct impact on the quality of …

Crowdsourcing (CS) is the outsourcing of a unit of work to a crowd of people via an open call
for contributions. Thanks to the availability of online CS platforms, such as Amazon …

Whereas crowdsourcing as a topic has often been addressed in recent literature, web-based
crowdworking platforms that manage the interface between crowdsourcers and …

Web 2.0 provides the technological foundations upon which the crowdsourcing paradigm
evolves and operates, enabling networked experts to work on various problem solving and …

Citizen Engineering seeks to leverage a large number of ordinary citizens to solve real-
world problems. Emerging information technologies provide us with opportunities to answer …

Crowdsourcing initiatives benefit from tapping into diversity. A vast plethora of disparate
individuals, organizations, frameworks and skillsets can all play a role in sourcing solutions …

This paper is focused on community-based crowdsourcing applications, ie the ability of
spawning crowdsourcing tasks upon multiple communities of performers, thus leveraging …

In recent years crowdsourcing systems have shown to provide important benefits to
Smartcities, where ubiquitous citizens, acting as mobile human sensors, assist in …

Micro-task crowd sourcing fosters a labor relation in which large volumes of small, simple
tasks are completed at low cost by self-selected online workers. The growth of micro-task …