TY - JOUR
T1 - Lowering the Technical Threshold for Organizers to Create and Deliver Mobile Crowd Sensing Applications
AU - Wang, Jiangtao
AU - Wang, Yasha
AU - He, Yuanduo
N1 - Copyright © 2015 Jiangtao Wang et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License,which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
PY - 2015/11/1
Y1 - 2015/11/1
N2 - In order to lower the technical threshold for creating and delivering Mobile Crowd Sensing Applications (MCSAs), several frameworks or toolkits have been developed, but they either fail to provide general support or still require relatively professional software development skills. Besides, the application delivery to the participants is not precise enough, because they only consider the constraints predefined by the organizers without taking the participant-side factors into account. In this paper, we propose a prototype toolkit for the organizers without software development skills to build MCSA in a rather quick and simple way. First, in terms of the application creation, it enables organizers to build MCSA by just doing some simple settings, which totally eliminates the requirement of programming skills. Second, in terms of the application delivery, it selects participants who are more likely to accept the created applications by mining their participation history. Finally, we demonstrate the expressiveness and usability for the application creation and evaluate the effectiveness of the willingness-based participant selection algorithm for the application delivery.
AB - In order to lower the technical threshold for creating and delivering Mobile Crowd Sensing Applications (MCSAs), several frameworks or toolkits have been developed, but they either fail to provide general support or still require relatively professional software development skills. Besides, the application delivery to the participants is not precise enough, because they only consider the constraints predefined by the organizers without taking the participant-side factors into account. In this paper, we propose a prototype toolkit for the organizers without software development skills to build MCSA in a rather quick and simple way. First, in terms of the application creation, it enables organizers to build MCSA by just doing some simple settings, which totally eliminates the requirement of programming skills. Second, in terms of the application delivery, it selects participants who are more likely to accept the created applications by mining their participation history. Finally, we demonstrate the expressiveness and usability for the application creation and evaluate the effectiveness of the willingness-based participant selection algorithm for the application delivery.
UR - http://www.research.lancs.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/lowering-the-technical-threshold-for-organizers-to-create-and-deliver-mobile-crowd-sensing-applications(94ae225e-be11-49fb-b8d4-2277bb74b93d).html
U2 - 10.1155/2015/721647
DO - 10.1155/2015/721647
M3 - Article
SN - 1550-1329
VL - 11
SP - 721647
JO - International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks
JF - International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks
IS - 11
ER -