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Architecture of Mobile Crowdsourcing Systems

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This paper proposes a general architecture and a classification scheme for mobile crowdsourcing systems, which are illustrated by two example applications. The aim is to gain a better understanding of typical functionalities and design aspects to be considered during development and evaluation of such collaborative systems.

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  • crowdsourcing
  • crowdsourcing system
  • mobile crowdsourcing
  • crowdsourcing application
  • architecture
  • classification scheme

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    Nelson Baloian

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Fuchs-Kittowski, F., Faust, D. (2014). Architecture of Mobile Crowdsourcing Systems. In: Baloian, N., Burstein, F., Ogata, H., Santoro, F., Zurita, G. (eds) Collaboration and Technology. CRIWG 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8658. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10166-8_12

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