Lowering the Technical Threshold for Organizers to Create and Deliver Mobile Crowd Sensing Applications

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 appl...

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Main Authors: Jiangtao Wang, Yasha Wang, Yuanduo He
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi - SAGE Publishing 2015-11-01
Series:International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1155/2015/721647
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description 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.
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spelling doaj.art-d6c0a42fdef2411b890f53ce1955a1672023-09-02T20:51:41ZengHindawi - SAGE PublishingInternational Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks1550-14772015-11-011110.1155/2015/721647721647Lowering the Technical Threshold for Organizers to Create and Deliver Mobile Crowd Sensing ApplicationsJiangtao Wang0Yasha Wang1Yuanduo He2 School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China National Engineering Research Center of Software Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University, Beijing 100871, ChinaIn 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.https://doi.org/10.1155/2015/721647
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title Lowering the Technical Threshold for Organizers to Create and Deliver Mobile Crowd Sensing Applications
title_full Lowering the Technical Threshold for Organizers to Create and Deliver Mobile Crowd Sensing Applications
title_fullStr Lowering the Technical Threshold for Organizers to Create and Deliver Mobile Crowd Sensing Applications
title_full_unstemmed Lowering the Technical Threshold for Organizers to Create and Deliver Mobile Crowd Sensing Applications
title_short Lowering the Technical Threshold for Organizers to Create and Deliver Mobile Crowd Sensing Applications
title_sort lowering the technical threshold for organizers to create and deliver mobile crowd sensing applications
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