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The concepts of wisdom of crowd and collective intelligence have been utilized by mobile application developers to achieve large-scale distributed computation, known as crowd computing. The profitability of this method heavily depends on users' social interactions and their willingness to share resources. Thus, different crowd computing applications need to adopt mechanisms that motivate peers to...
Allowing a mobile device to provide a service to the neighbouring peers carries non-negligible risks, of which confidentiality, privacy and selfishness are good examples. To discourage selfishness, two approaches are typically taken: i) in trade based systems, devices agree on a retribution for the execution of a task, ii) in trust based systems rogue devices are detected and announced by their peers...
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