Recent years have witnessed an increase in human life expectancy fueled by significant
improvements in infrastructure, healthcare, and economies across the globe. Longer life …

The air quality in urban areas is a major concern in modern cities due to significant impacts
of air pollution on public health, global environment, and worldwide economy. Recent …

Big data are widely recognized as being one of the most powerful drivers to promote
productivity, improve efficiency, and support innovation. It is highly expected to explore the …

Crowd sensing (CS) is an approach to collecting many samples of a phenomena of interest
by distributing the sampling across a large number of individuals. While any one individual …

Wearable sensing technologies are having a worldwide impact on the creation of novel
business opportunities and application services that are benefiting the common citizen. By …

Participatory sensing is a powerful paradigm that takes advantage of smartphones to collect
and analyze data beyond the scale of what was previously possible. Given that participatory …

Participatory sensing (PS) systems rely on the willingness of mobile users to participate in
the collection and reporting of data using a variety of sensors either embedded or integrated …

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

The advent of Blockchain and smart contracts is empowering many technologies and
systems to automate commerce and facilitate the exchange, tracking and the provision of …

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