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Allocating Heterogeneous Tasks in Participatory Sensing with Diverse Participant-Side Factors

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Allocating Heterogeneous Tasks in Participatory Sensing with Diverse Participant-Side Factors. / Wang, Jiangtao; Wang, Feng; Wang, Yasha et al.
In: IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Vol. 18, No. 9, 10.09.2019, p. 1979-1991.

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Wang, J, Wang, F, Wang, Y, Zhang, D, Lim, BY & Wang, L 2019, 'Allocating Heterogeneous Tasks in Participatory Sensing with Diverse Participant-Side Factors', IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 18, no. 9, pp. 1979-1991. https://doi.org/10.1109/TMC.2018.2869387

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Wang, J., Wang, F., Wang, Y., Zhang, D., Lim, B. Y., & Wang, L. (2019). Allocating Heterogeneous Tasks in Participatory Sensing with Diverse Participant-Side Factors. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 18(9), 1979-1991. https://doi.org/10.1109/TMC.2018.2869387

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Wang J, Wang F, Wang Y, Zhang D, Lim BY, Wang L. Allocating Heterogeneous Tasks in Participatory Sensing with Diverse Participant-Side Factors. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. 2019 Sept 10;18(9):1979-1991. Epub 2018 Sept 10. doi: 10.1109/TMC.2018.2869387

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Wang, Jiangtao ; Wang, Feng ; Wang, Yasha et al. / Allocating Heterogeneous Tasks in Participatory Sensing with Diverse Participant-Side Factors. In: IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. 2019 ; Vol. 18, No. 9. pp. 1979-1991.

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abstract = "This paper proposes a novel task allocation framework, PSTasker, for participatory sensing (PS), which aims to maximize the overall system utility on PS platform by coordinating the allocation of multiple tasks. While existing studies mainly optimize the task allocation from the perspective of the task organizer (e.g., maximizing coverage or minimizing incentive cost), PSTasker further considers diverse factors on the participants' side, including user work bandwidth, user availability, devices' sensor configuration, task completion likelihood, and mobility pattern. Furthermore, by considering the heterogeneity in three dimensions (i.e., task, time and space), it adopts a novel model to measure task sensing quality and overall system utility. In PSTasker, it first calculates the utlity of a given task allocation plan by jointly fusing different participant-side factors into one unified estimation function, and then employs an iterative greedy process to optimize the task allocation. Extensive evaluations based on real-world mobility traces demonstrate that PSTasker outperforms the baseline methods under various settings.",
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