Towards a generic framework for trustworthy spatial crowdsourcing
Cyrus Shahabi · 2013
Many studies foresee significant future growth in the number of mobile smart phone users, the phone's hardware and software features, and the broadband bandwidth. Therefore, a transformative area of research is to fully utilize this new platform for various tasks, among which the most promising is spatial crowdsourcing. Spatial crowdsourcing (SC) engages individuals, groups, and communities in the act of collecting, analyzing, and disseminating urban, social, and other spatiotemporal information. This new paradigm of data collection has shown to be useful when traditional means fail (e.g., due to disaster), are censored or do not scale in time and space.