NDLI: TruCentive: A game-theoretic incentive platform for trustworthy mobile crowdsourcing parking services

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Baik Hoh Tingxin Yan Ganesan, D. Tracton, K. Iwuchukwu, T. Juong-Sik Lee
Copyright Year	2012
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst 01003, USA (Tingxin Yan; Ganesan, D.) \|\| Nokia Research Center, Palo Alto CA 94304, USA (Baik Hoh; Tracton, K.; Iwuchukwu, T.; Juong-Sik Lee)
Abstract	The shortage of parking in crowded urban areas causes severe societal problems such as traffic congestion, environmental pollution, and many others. Recently, crowdsourced parking, where smartphone users are exploited to collect realtime parking availability information, has attracted significant attention. However, existing crowdsourced parking information systems suffer from low user participation rate and data quality due to the lack of carefully designed incentive schemes. In this paper, we address the incentive problem of trustworthy crowdsourced parking information systems by presenting an incentive platform named TruCentive, where high utility parking data can be obtained from unreliable crowds of mobile users. Our contribution is three-fold. First, we provide hierarchical incentives to stimulate the participation of mobile users for contributing parking information. Second, by introducing utility-related incentives, our platform encourages participants to contribute high utility data and thereby enhances the quality of collected data. Third, our active confirmation scheme validates the parking information utility by game-theoretically formulated incentive protocols. The active confirming not only validates the utility of contributed data but re-sells the high utility data as well. Our evaluation through user study on Amazon Mechanical Turk and simulation study demonstrate the feasibility and stability of TruCentive incentive platform.
Starting Page	160
Ending Page	166
File Size	308351
Page Count	7
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781467330640
ISSN	21530009
e-ISBN	9781467330633
e-ISBN	9781467330626
DOI	10.1109/ITSC.2012.6338894
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2012-09-16
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Availability Protocols Mobile communication Incentive schemes Vehicles Sensors Equations
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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