On credibility estimation tradeoffs in assured social sensing

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1026-1037

  Wang, Dong ^a   Kaplan, Lance ^b   Abdelzaher, Tarek ^a   Aggarwal, Charu C ^c  

^a University of Illinois ^*  (United States)

^b U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c IBM RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cramer Rao Lower Bound; Maximum Likelihood Estimation; Predictability; Robustness; Scalability; Social Sensing; Truth Discovery

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS; CRAMER RAO LOWER BOUND; FUNDAMENTAL PROPERTIES; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD APPROACHES; PREDICTABILITY; SOCIAL SENSING; TRUTH DISCOVERY; UNDERLYING NETWORKS;

COMMERCE; CRAMER-RAO BOUNDS; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; RELIABILITY; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SCALABILITY;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 84878163805     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2013.130605     Document Type: Article

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