Crowdsourcing using mobile devices, known as mobile crowdsourcing, is a powerful
approach incorporating human wisdom into mobile computations to solve problems while …

To provide fine-grained access to different dimensions of the physical world, the data
uploading in smart cyber-physical systems suffers novel challenges on both energy …

Local administrations and governments aim at leveraging wireless communications and
Internet of Things (IoT) technologies to manage the city infrastructures and enhance the …

Estimating proper participants is an important way to ensure the quality of tasks' outcomes in
knowledge-intensive crowdsourcing (KI-C). The choice of a proper participant is a complex …

With the popularity of sensor-rich mobile devices (eg, smart phones and wearable devices),
mobile crowdsourcing (MCS) has emerged as an effective method for data collection and …

Spatial Crowdsourcing (SC) is a transformative platform that engages individuals in
collecting and analyzing environmental, social, and other spatio-temporal information. SC …

Spatial crowdsourcing (SC) is a location-based outsourcing service whereby SC-server
allocates tasks to workers with mobile devices according to the locations outsourced by …

Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) leverage information and communications technology
to make transportation systems intelligent, safe, and efficient, hence improving people's …

In the participatory sensing framework, privacy protection of the Internet of Things (IoT) is
very important. In this article, cryptography-based methods are utilized to protect participants' …

The new paradigm of fog computing was extended from conventional cloud computing to
provide computing and storage capabilities at the edge of the network. Applied to vehicular …