"The book is suitable for scientists and programmers, both for research and for developing practical applications. ... the proposed approaches, models, and algorithms could be useful for managing similar space-intensive and/or time-intensive crowdsourced cloud services." (Snezhana Gocheva-Ilieva, Computing Reviews, February, 2019)
1 Introduction
1.1 Motivation
1.2 Problem Statement
1.3 Research Objectives
1.4 Contributions
1.5 Organization
2 Background
2.1 Sensor-Cloud Architecture
2.2 Service Composition
2.3 Spatio-Temporal Crowdsourced Services
2.4 Incentive Models
2.5 Chapter Summary
3 Spatio-Temporal Linear Composition of Sensor-Cloud Services
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Background
3.3 Spatio-Temporal Model for Sensor-Cloud Services
3.4 Spatio-Temporal Selection of Sensor-Cloud Services
3.5 Spatio-Temporal Quality Model for Line Segment Services
3.6 Spatio-Temporal Linear Composition of Sensor-Cloud Services
3.7 Failure-Proof Spatio-Temporal Composition of Sensor Cloud Services
3.8 Performance Study
3.9 Chapter Summary
4 Crowdsourced Coverage as a Service: Two-Level Composition of SensorCloud Services
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Coverage as a Service (CaaS)
4.3 Double-Layered Crowdsourced Sensor-Cloud Service Composition
4.4 Experimental Results
4.5 Chapter Summary
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