Social sensing building reliable systems on unreliable data

Increasingly, human beings are sensors engaging directly with the mobile Internet. Individuals can now share real-time experiences at an unprecedented scale. Social Sensing: Building Reliable Systems on Unreliable Data looks at recent advances in the emerging field of social sensing, emphasizing th...

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Other Authors: Wang, Dong, author (author), Abdelzaher, Tarek, author, Kaplan, Lance, author
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amsterdam : Elsevier [2015]
Edition:First edition
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Summary:Increasingly, human beings are sensors engaging directly with the mobile Internet. Individuals can now share real-time experiences at an unprecedented scale. Social Sensing: Building Reliable Systems on Unreliable Data looks at recent advances in the emerging field of social sensing, emphasizing the key problem faced by application designers: how to extract reliable information from data collected from largely unknown and possibly unreliable sources. The book explains how a myriad of societal applications can be derived from this massive amount of data collected and shared by average individu
Item Description:Description based upon print version of record.
Physical Description:1 online resource (232 p.)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780128008676