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Sew-Ing A Simple Endorsement Web To Incentivize Trustworthy Participatory Sensing, T. Luo, S. Kanhere, Hwee-Pink Tan
Sew-Ing A Simple Endorsement Web To Incentivize Trustworthy Participatory Sensing, T. Luo, S. Kanhere, Hwee-Pink Tan
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Two crucial issues to the success of participatory sensing are (a) how to incentivize the large crowd of mobile users to participate and (b) how to ensure the sensing data to be trustworthy. While they are traditionally being studied separately in the literature, this paper proposes a Simple Endorsement Web (SEW) to address both issues in a synergistic manner. The key idea is (a) introducing a social concept called nepotism into participatory sensing, by linking mobile users into a social “web of participants” with endorsement relations, and (b) overlaying this network with investment-like economic implications. The social and economic layers …