Research Article
Trust Evaluation for Participatory Sensing
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-40238-8_15, author={Atif Manzoor and Mikael Asplund and M\^{e}lanie Bouroche and Siobh\^{a}n Clarke and Vinny Cahill}, title={Trust Evaluation for Participatory Sensing}, proceedings={Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking, and Services. 9th International Conference, MobiQuitous 2012, Beijing, China, December 12-14, 2012. Revised Selected Papers}, proceedings_a={MOBIQUITOUS}, year={2013}, month={9}, keywords={Trust evaluation participatory sensing mobile and ubiquitous computing}, doi={10.1007/978-3-642-40238-8_15} }- Atif Manzoor
Mikael Asplund
Mélanie Bouroche
Siobhán Clarke
Vinny Cahill
Year: 2013
Trust Evaluation for Participatory Sensing
MOBIQUITOUS
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-40238-8_15
Abstract
Participatory sensing, combining the power of crowd and the ubiquitously available smart phones, plays an important role to sense the urban environment and develop many exciting smart city applications to improve the quality of life and enable sustainability. The knowledge of the participatory sensing participants’ competence to collect data is vital for any effective urban data collection campaign and the success of these applications. In this paper, we present a methodology to compute the trustworthiness of the participatory sensing participants as the belief on their competence to collect high quality data. In our experiments, we evaluate trust on the sensing participants of BusWatch, a participatory sensing based bus arrival time prediction application. Our results show that our system effectively computes the sensing participants’ trustworthiness as the belief on their competence to collect high quality data and detect their dynamically varying sensing behavior.