Crowdsourcing On Mobile Application'

Abstract

As crowd-sourcing is becoming popular for problem solving and completing a task, it is now very important to use this concept in an advance manner. It can also be used as a distributed and vast source of information. This concept is now evolving in world of mobile systems. This will be a little different from that of computer systems., we have discussed some new technologies and challenges before us to implement these advancements in crowd-sourcing. In this thesis, we have emphasized on cheatdetection techniques which can be implemented on various types of crowd-sourcing applications. Some applications requires accurate or close to accurate answers while other applications are seeking for just opinion of user. The cheat detection mechanisms in both the cases will be different. As in latter case, we don’t have any set of correct solutions. We have discussed the need of multimedia data management. As, we are supposed to transfer i.e. send and receive multimedia files, we requires a standard interface which is capable to allow data directly from websites(WAP in case of mobiles), resolve description of unknown resources and integrate the data sets accordingly. The problem of ambiguity is also considered to be an important part of challenges in crowd-sourcing mechanisms. In some applications, use of handwriting and sound recognition techniques may play an important role to improve the effectiveness of applications where handwriting or sound clips are going to fall under information category.