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Mobile Crowd Sensing and Computing: When Participatory Sensing Meets Participatory Social Media [PDF]
With the development of mobile sensing and mobile social networking techniques, Mobile Crowd Sensing and Computing (MCSC), which leverages heterogeneous crowdsourced data for large-scale sensing, has become a leading paradigm. Built on top of the participatory sensing vision, MCSC has two characterizing features: (1) it leverages heterogeneous ...
arxiv
Citizen Sensors for SHM: Towards a Crowdsourcing Platform
This paper presents an innovative structural health monitoring (SHM) platform in terms of how it integrates smartphone sensors, the web, and crowdsourcing. The ubiquity of smartphones has provided an opportunity to create low-cost sensor networks for SHM.
Ekin Ozer, Maria Q. Feng, Dongming Feng
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Subjective Knowledge Acquisition and Enrichment Powered By Crowdsourcing [PDF]
Knowledge bases (KBs) have attracted increasing attention due to its great success in various areas, such as Web and mobile search.Existing KBs are restricted to objective factual knowledge, such as city population or fruit shape, whereas,subjective knowledge, such as big city, which is commonly mentioned in Web and mobile queries, has been neglected ...
arxiv
Building more entrepreneurial organizations through external innovation contests
Abstract Firms are increasingly adopting innovation contests to obtain ideas for new products and services from external parties, but many firms may not be sufficiently entrepreneurial to benefit from those ideas. Using an inductive longitudinal case study of three financial service firms, we explore the value of external innovation contests for less ...
Angelo Cavallo, J. Henri Burgers
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From Crowdsourcing to Crowdmining: Using Implicit Human Intelligence for Better Understanding of Crowdsourced Data [PDF]
With the development of mobile social networks, more and more crowdsourced data are generated on the Web or collected from real-world sensing. The fragment, heterogeneous, and noisy nature of online/offline crowdsourced data, however, makes it difficult to be understood.
arxiv
Innovation in the sharing economy: Examining Uber's transformation
Abstract The sharing economy has altered transactions between providers and users in at least two pivotal ways. First, sharing economy offerings are often crowdsourced from a wide range of providers rather than a single firm. Second, these offerings are typically temporarily accessed rather than permanently owned.
Erica Ji Hyun Lee+2 more
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Mobile crowdsourcing - activation of smartphones users to elicit specialized knowledge through worker profile match [PDF]
Crowdsourcing models applied to work on mobile devices continuously reach new ways of solving sophisticated problems, now with a use of portable advanced devices, where users are not limited to a stationary use. There exists an open problem of quality in crowdsourcing models due the inexperienced or malicious workers.
arxiv
Abstract The proliferation of food delivery platforms is profoundly changing the way urbanites eat, work, and move. These platforms increasingly mobilise urban resources and population to function as critical infrastructure in the field of logistics and transportation, giving rise to a new form of governance.
Noel Chung
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ABSTRACT Users are an important source of innovation. Scholars suggest that established firms can gain product‐related insights by working with user communities and studies documenting various ways of working with users, as well as managers' interest in doing so.
Dilan Aksoy‐Yurdagul
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Crowdsourcing solutions for supporting urban mobility
Abstract Recently, several urban crowdsourcing investigations and various experiments have been conducted with the aim of engaging citizens in order to produce information about their cities and their communities. This article reports on the results of a research based on a systematic analysis of the current literature on “urban crowdsourcing” and ...
Luis Ocha Siguencia+3 more
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