No "one-size fits all": Towards a principled approach for incentives in mobile crowdsourcing

Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications, HotMobile 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages

  Rula, John P ^a   Navda, Vishnu ^b   Bustamante, Fabián E ^a   Bhagwan, Ranjita ^b   Guha, Saikat ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SCIENCE;

CROWDSOURCED SYSTEMS; CROWDSOURCING; INCENTIVE STRUCTURE; KEY ISSUES; MOBILE CROWDSOURCING;

MOBILE COMPUTING;

EID: 84899873155     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2565585.2565603     Document Type: Conference Paper

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