Online crowdsourcing provides a scalable and inexpensive means to collect knowledge (eg
labels) about various types of data items (eg text, audio, video). However, it is also known to …

Crowdsourcing is a problem-solving and task realization model that is being increasingly
used. Thanks to the possibility of harnessing the collective intelligence from the Internet; …

Crowd computing is a term that has been used only recently in the literature, and has been
conceptualised in various ways as being related to crowdsourcing, human computation …

Today, the distribution of people with smart mobile devices has provided the opportunity for
mobile crowd sensing. Several mobile crowd sensing systems have led to the collection of …

Internet of Things is a promising paradigm that integrates a plethora of heterogeneous
computational devices, incorporating the crowd, frameworks, additional system elements …

Abstract Most Music Information Retrieval (MIR) researchers will agree that understanding
users' needs and behaviors is critical for developing a good MIR system. The number of user …

Social media producers are currently having a fierce competition worldwide to increase their
revenues. To achieve this goal, they are investigating alternative ways to attract more users …

The Web is now both an information repository and a cyberspace supported by a
participatory culture. In the domain of news and journalism, the Social Web has witnessed …

The facility location problem (FLP) is a complex optimization problem that has been widely
researched and applied in industry. In this research, we proposed two innovative …

The exponential growth of computer processing power, cloud data storage, and
crowdsourcing model of gathering data bring new possibilities to music information retrieval …