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The Crowdsensing-based systems using mobile technology create a new kind of collective intelligence in a sensing environment mediated by ICTs. On the other hand, ICTs and social networks contribute to the emergence of virtual communities. The interaction among participants can create dynamically groups from a previously known platform where all participants perform tasks and solve problems in a specific...
The exploitation of mobile social networking technologies merging crowdsensing systems enable mobile users to opportunistically create participatory mobile social networks based on not only common attributes, interests or contacts, but also mobility-related context, such as physical location and co-presence. Disaster management and mobile healthcare applications can benefit from the possibility of...
Advancements in mobile communication technologies and the continuously increasingly diffusion of smartphones equipped with several physical and virtual sensors and with different network support are promoting novel mobile healthcare scenarios where patients with critical physical/behavioral conditions can be provided with anywhere and anytime care assistance even while on the move. In particular,...
Recent advancements in wireless technologies and the widespread availability of smartphones equipped with several physical and virtual sensors are leading to the emergence of novel mobile healthcare scenarios where patients with critical physical/behavioral conditions can be provided with anywhere and anytime care assistance even while on the move. Crowdsensing, through the massive use of smartphone...
New sensors embedded into modern smartphones has led into a new data collection prospective in which people directly collect all the sensitive data. This feature has found different applications, in particular in the Smart Cities area, in order to establish dynamic communications between the citizens and the city government. This category of application is nestled into the Mobile Crowd Sensing (MCS)...
Credit analysis is used by financial companies to grant credit to customers. The analysis is expensive, bureaucratic, and requires the collection of customer personal information. However, shopping malls are selling goods in several installments and need a simple, fast, and cheap process to grant credit to their customers. One way to improve the efficiency of this process is to facilitate the sharing...
Novel sensor-equipped smartphones have enabled the possibility of harvesting large quantities of data in urban areas by opportunistically involving citizens and their portable devices, as mobile sensors widely available and distributed over Smart Cities areas, typically defined as Mobile Crowd Sensing (MCS). Although some existing efforts have already tackled some of the several MCS issues, to the...
Recent advances in sensor-equipped smartphones are opening brand new opportunities, such as automatically extracting Points Of Interest (POIs) and mobility habits of citizens in Smart Cities from the large amount of harvested data hotspots. At the same time, the high dynamicity and unpredictability of Smart Cities crowds, opportunistically collaborating toward these common crowdsensing tasks, introduces...
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