The success of a disaster relief and response process is largely dependent on timely and
accurate information regarding the status of the disaster, the surrounding environment, and …

Traditional collaborative ltering assumes the availability of explicit ratings of users for items.
However, in many cases these ratings are not available and only binary, positive-only data …

With the development of Web 2.0, ubiquitous computing, and corresponding technologies,
social media has the ability to provide the concepts of information contribution, diffusion, and …

Abstract Data processing for Smart Cities become more challenging, facing with different
handling steps: data collection from different heterogeneous sources, processing sometimes …

People often have to queue for a busy service in many places around a city, and knowing
the queue time can be helpful for making better activity plans to avoid long queues …

Wireless sensor and actors networks (WSANs) have become an important research area
due to its large number of applications in safety, security and mission-critical systems …

The proliferation of mobile devices, equipped with numerous sensors and Internet
connectivity, has laid the foundation for the emergence of a diverse set of crowdsourcing …

Detecting crack type and crack size is crucial for road maintenance and management.
Mobile crowd sensing is a new way to collect the information of cracks on roads. We …

Volcano tomography provides valuable information concerning the internal structure of a
volcano. During times of increased volcano activities, real-time images of the interior would …

Data volumes are growing at a high speed as data emerges from millions of devices. This
brings an increasing need for streaming analytics, processing and analysing the data in a …