Iterative expectation maximization for reliable social sensing with information flows

• Main Authors: Ma, Lijia, Tay, Wee Peng, Xiao, Gaoxi
• Other Authors: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Truth Discovery; Social Sensing; Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/102637; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/49524
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Social sensing relies on a large number of observations reported by different, possibly unreliable, agents to determine if an event has occurred or not. In this paper, we consider the truth discovery problem in social sensing, in which an agent may receive another agent’s observation (known as an in...