Crowdsourcing as a Computing Paradigm

Speaker:        Professor Guoliang XUE
                School of Computing, Informatics,and Decision Systems Engineering
                Arizona State University
                Tempe, Arizona, USA

Title:          "Crowdsourcing as a Computing Paradigm"

Date:           Monday, 27 April 2015

Time:           2:00pm - 3:00pm

Venue:          Lecture Theatre H (near lifts 27/28), HKUST

Abstract:

In many situations, the wisdom of the crowds is superior to that of a few
experts. With the increasing popularity of mobile devices interconnected
via wireless networks, crowdsourcing has emerged as is a new computing
paradigm, which uses collective intelligence to accomplish computing
tasks. In this computing paradigm, individual users can make a profit by
providing service to needed clients. Crowdsourcing finds its applications
in WiFi mapping, traffic monitoring, mobile phone sensing, and is the
winning strategy in the DARPA network challenge. Examples of crowdsourcing
include Wikipedia, Open Innovation, the Linux open source project, and
WAZE-a community based traffic and navigation app.

However, crowdsourcing has its limitations and challenges. How to mobilize
users to contribute to the system? How to eliminate/reduce conflicts among
users of the system? How to deal with noise in the crowdsourced data? The
list goes on and on. In this talk, we will discuss recent research
advances and future research opportunities related to crowdsourcing
computing paradigm, truthful incentive mechanisms, the problems of and
solutions for free-riding and false reporting, as well as nose in data
obtained from crowdsourcing.

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Biography:

Guoliang XUE is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Arizona
State University. He earned a PhD degree in Computer Science in 1991 from
the University of Minnesota. His research interests include resource
allocation in computer networks, and survivability and security issues in
networks. He is a recipient of Best Paper Award at IEEE ICC'2012 and IEEE
MASS'2011, as well as a Best Paper Runner-up at IEEE ICNP'2010. He is an
Area Editor of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications for the
Wireless Networking Area, and an Editor of IEEE Network. He was a past
editor of Computer Networks, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, and IEEE
Transactions on Wireless Communications. He was a TPC co-chair of IEEE
INFOCOM'2010 and is the vice chair of the INFOCOM Standing Committee. He
is an Area Chair of IEEE ICNP'2014 and an Area Chair of IEEE INFOCOM'2015.
He is a co-General Chair of IEEE CNS'2014 and a TPC member of ACM
CCS'2014. He is a Keynote Speaker at IEEE LCN'2011. He is an IEEE Fellow.