The implementation of smart technology in cities is often hailed as the solution to many
urban challenges such as transportation, waste management, and environmental protection …

Among the emerging concepts in the context of IoT, crowdsourcing, and crowdsensing are
known as two critical building blocks on the intersection point of things and human-based …

Mobile crowdsensing serves as a critical building block for emerging Internet of Things (IoT)
applications. However, the sensing devices continuously generate a large amount of data …

Conventional data collection methods that use Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) suffer
from disadvantages such as deployment location limitation, geographical distance, as well …

The advent and increasing implementation of user configured and user oriented systems
structured around the use of cloud configured information and the Internet of Things is …

Recent advances in sensing, computing, and networking have paved the way for the
emerging paradigm of participatory sensing (PS). The openness of such systems and the …

Improving efficiency of city services and facilitating a more sustainable development of cities
are the main drivers of the smart city concept. Information and Communication Technologies …

New mobile applications need to estimate user activities by using sensor data provided by
smart wearable devices and deliver context-aware solutions to users living in smart …

With the proliferation of smartphones, participatory sensing using smartphones provides
unprecedented opportunities for collecting enormous sensing data. There are two crucial …

As literature around policing and society grows, there is increased use of, and focus upon
the concept of police 'demand'. The concept itself, however, is ill-defined and no consensus …