The main idea behind social participatory sensing is to leverage social friends to participate in mobile sensing tasks. A main challenge, however, is the identification and recruitment of sufficient number of well-suited ...

Social participatory sensing is a newly proposed paradigm that tries to address the limitations of participatory sensing by leveraging online social networks as an infrastructure. A critical issue in the success of this ...

The main idea behind social crowdsensing is to leverage social friends as crowdworkers to participate in crowdsensing tasks. A main challenge, however, is the identification and recruitment of well-suited workers. This ...

With the advent of the internet, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) has obtained a
considerable amount of attention due to its low cost, and ease of implementation.
Similar to other emerging technologies, VoIP faces ...

The main idea behind social participatory sensing is to lever-age social networks as the underlying infrastructure for recruiting social friends to participate in a sensing campaign. Such recruitment requires

the ...

The idea of social participatory sensing provides a substrate to benefit from friendship relations in recruiting a critical mass of participants willing to attend in a sensing campaign. However, the selection of suitable ...

Advances in the sensing capabilities of smartphones have resulted in the emergence of crowdsensing. In a crowdsensing campaign, ordinary citizens are recruited to collect sensor data from nearby environments which are then ...

The integration of participatory sensing with online social networks affords an effective means to generate a critical mass of participants, which is essential for the success of this new and exciting

paradigm. An ...

Telecare medical information systems are becoming more and more popular due to the provision of delivering health services including remote access to health profile for doctors, staff and patients. Since these systems are ...