Life after herbarium digitisation: Physical and digital collections, curation and use
Societal Impact Statement Collections of dried plant specimens (herbaria) provide an invaluable resource for the study of many areas of scientific interest and conservation globally. Digitisation increases access to specimens and metadata, enabling efficient use across a broad spectrum of research.
Alan James Paton +39 more
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Crowdsourcing with mobile techniques for crisis support
Within natural processes responsibilities from central authorities to local levels as first actors of civil protection is a changing pattern. Prevention and preparedness are long-term goals in natural hazards, based on capacities of professional volunteers, and awareness of the citizens as local inhabitants.
Frigerio, Simone, Schenato, Luca
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From mobile crowdsourcing to crowd-trusted food price in Nigeria: statistical pre-processing and post-sampling. [PDF]
Arbia G +6 more
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Differentially private mechanisms for budget limited mobile crowdsourcing
Recently, Mobile Crowdsourcing (MC) has aroused great interest on the part of both academic and industrial circles. One of the key problems in MC is designing the proper mechanisms to incentivize user participation, as users are typically self-interested
Xiao, Mingjun +9 more
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Rapid, user-transparent, and trustworthy device pairing for D2D-enabled mobile crowdsourcing [PDF]
Mobile Crowdsourcing is a promising service paradigm utilizing ubiquitous mobile devices to facilitate large-scale crowdsourcing tasks (e.g. urban sensing and collaborative computing).
Yang, S, McCann, J, Zhao, C, Yang, X
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An Analytic Approach to People Evaluation in Crowdsourcing Systems 2012-4 [PDF]
Worker selection is a significant and challenging issue in crowdsourcing systems. Such selection is usually based on an assessment of the reputation of the individual workers participating in such systems.
Ignjatovic, Aleksander +5 more
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The Novel Location Privacy-Preserving CKD for Mobile Crowdsourcing Systems
With the development of mobile devices, mobile crowdsourcing has become the research hotspot in mobile crowd sensing networks (MCSS). How to protect the location privacy of mobile user in location-based services is a key problem in MCSS.
Zhongyang Chi +3 more
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Health Sentinel: A mobile crowdsourcing platform for self-reported surveys provides early detection of COVID-19 clusters in San Luis Potosí, Mexico. [PDF]
Ruiz-Correa S +18 more
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Mobile apps have revolutionized almost every aspect of our daily lives, shaping the way we shop, learn and work. The transformative and unprecedented impact they have made on our lifestyle and the convenience they have offered have increased their ...
Ghadah Alamer +2 more
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Mobile Crowdsourced Sensors Selection for Journey Services
We propose a mobile crowdsourced sensors selection approach to improve the journey planning service especially in areas where no wireless or vehicular sensors are available. We develop a location estimation model of journey services based on an unsupervised learning model to select and cluster the right mobile crowdsourced sensors that are accurately ...
Ahmed Ben Said +3 more
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