The rapid adoption of mobile devices that are able to capture and transmit a wide variety of
sensing modalities (media and location) has enabled a new data collection paradigm …

How to use data as a tool for empowerment rather than oppression. Big data can be used for
good, from tracking disease to exposing human rights violations, and for bad, implementing …

Imagers are an increasingly significant source of sensory observations about human activity
and the urban environment. ImageScape is a software tool for processing, clustering, and …

At the end of 2014, over 93 percent of the world's population owned cellular phones, with
penetration rates that exceeded 100 percent in most developed countries. Mobile phones …

Mobile crowd sensing (MCS) is a novel class of mobile Internet of Things (IoT) applications
for community sensing where sensors and mobile devices jointly collect and share data of …

In crowdsensing, appropriate rewards are always expected to compensate the participants
for their consumptions of physical resources and involvements of manual efforts. While …

The objective of this research is to improve traffic safety through collecting and distributing
up-to-date road surface condition information using mobile phones. Road surface condition …

The Internet based cyber-physical world has profoundly changed the information
environment for the development of artificial intelligence (AI), bringing a new wave of AI …

Despite the availability of the sensor and smart-phone devices to fulfill the ubiquitous
computing vision, the-state-of-the-art falls short of this vision. We argue that the reason for …

This is the first book to summarize all aspects of allergenic pollen: production, atmospheric
distribution, and health impacts, as well as the means of monitoring and forecasting these …