SEW-ing a Simple Endorsement Web to incentivize trustworthy participatory sensing

• Main Authors: T. Luo, S. Kanhere, TAN, Hwee-Pink
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2014
• Subjects: Nepotism; altruism; beneficiary effect; crowdsourcing; human-centric computing; social networks; web of participants; witness effect; Digital Communications and Networking
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/2939; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/3939/viewcontent/secon2014.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Two crucial issues to the success of participatory sensing are (a) how to incentivize the large crowd of mobile users to participate and (b) how to ensure the sensing data to be trustworthy. While they are traditionally being studied separately in the literature, this paper proposes a Simple Endorse...