Название: Crowd Assisted Networking and Computing Автор: Al-Sakib Khan Pathan Издательство: CRC Press ISBN: 1138294764 Год: 2019 Страниц: 315 Язык: английский Формат: pdf (true) Размер: 21.5 MB
Crowd computing, crowdsourcing, crowd-associated network (CrAN), crowd-assisted sensing are some examples of crowd-based concepts that harness the power of people on the web or connected via web-like infrastructure to do tasks that are often difficult for individual users or computers to do alone. This creates many challenging issues like assessing reliability and correctness of crowd generated information, delivery of data and information via crowd, middleware for supporting crowdsourcing and crowd computing tasks, crowd associated networking and its security, Quality of Information (QoI) issues, etc. This book compiles the latest advances in the relevant fields.
As the technological landscape is constantly changing, in the near future, many of our communications will heavily rely on the crowd, who could be socially connected via the Internet or an Internet-like infrastructure. Gone are those days when people were relying only on selected sources of information, like traditional newspapers or TV channels. Today, we see, the crowd could supply information from distant and difficult-to-reach places faster than formal news and information channels. As the communications technologies and application software technologies advance, a single individual could represent several devices that could generate or supply information. Given this scenario, many challenging issues come forward, like assessing the reliability and correctness of crowd-generated information, the delivery of data and information via the crowd, middleware for supporting crowdsourcing and crowd computing tasks, crowd-associated networking and its security, and quality of information issues.