With the wide adoption of smart mobile devices, there is a rapid development of location-
based services. One key feature of supporting a pleasant/excellent service is the access to …

In a mobile crowdsourcing system (MCS), a platform outsources sensing tasks to numerous
mobile worker devices. The collected data are analyzed and the processed information is …

In current wireless communication systems, there is a rapid development of location based
services, which will play an essential role in the future 5G networks. One key feature in …

Mobile sensing exploits data contributed by mobile users (eg, via their smart phones) to
make sophisticated inferences about people and their surrounding and thus can be applied …

Pricing and task allocation are vital to improving the efficiency in mobile crowdsensing, an
emerging human-in-the-loop application paradigm. Previous studies focused on incentive …

The recent paradigm of mobile crowd sensing (MCS) enables a broad range of mobile
applications. A critical challenge for the paradigm is to incentivize phone users to be workers …

Reverse auction-based incentive mechanisms have been commonly proposed to stimulate
mobile users to participate in crowdsensing, where users submit bids to the platform to …

In a crowdsourcing system, it is important for the crowdsourcer to engineer extrinsic rewards
to incentivize the participants. With mobile social networking, a user enjoys an intrinsic …

The recent proliferation of increasingly capable mobile devices has given rise to mobile
crowd sensing (MCS) systems that outsource the collection of sensory data to a crowd of …

With the rich set of embedded sensors installed in smartphones and the large number of
mobile users, we witness the emergence of many innovative commercial mobile …