Social Sensing
Building Reliable Systems on Unreliable Data

Emerging ideas to analyze and leverage real-time social data created by human sensors

Dong Wang (Author), Tarek Abdelzaher (Author), Lance Kaplan (Author)

9780128008676, Elsevier Science

Paperback, published 24 March 2015

232 pages
23.4 x 19 x 1.6 cm, 0.5 kg

"...recommended both to cyber-physical systems researchers and sensor network researchers, but also to people involved in business analytics. After finishing this book, readers will better understand the fundamental concepts related to the subject and also receive new interpretations of, and solutions to, the problems encountered." --Computing Reviews

Increasingly, human beings are sensors engaging directly with the mobile Internet. Individuals can now share real-time experiences at an unprecedented scale. Social Sensing: Building Reliable Systems on Unreliable Data looks at recent advances in the emerging field of social sensing, emphasizing the key problem faced by application designers: how to extract reliable information from data collected from largely unknown and possibly unreliable sources. The book explains how a myriad of societal applications can be derived from this massive amount of data collected and shared by average individuals. The title offers theoretical foundations to support emerging data-driven cyber-physical applications and touches on key issues such as privacy. The authors present solutions based on recent research and novel ideas that leverage techniques from cyber-physical systems, sensor networks, machine learning, data mining, and information fusion.

1. Introduction2. Social Sensing Trends and Applications3. Mathematical Foundations4. Basic Fact-Finding5. Maximum Likelihood Estimation6. Confidence Bounds7. Conflicting Observations and Non-Binary Claims8. Understanding the Social Network9. Understanding Physical Dependencies10. Recursive Fact-finding11. Privacy12. Further Readings13. Conclusions and Remaining Challenges

Subject Areas: Artificial intelligence [UYQ], Data mining [UNF]