Social Sensing

Acknowledgments

This book would not have been possible without the encouragement, support, and hard work of many individuals who contributed in different ways to the journey of discovery described within. The authors are grateful to all the colleagues, students, and researchers who dedicated their time to developing theory, building systems, running experiments, and generally advancing the state of the art in social sensing, as well as the agencies funding their work.*

The need for a book on social sensing first occurred to the authors after a collaboration between Mani Srivastava, Tarek Abdelzaher, and Boleslaw Szymanski, who together wrote a survey on Human-centric Sensing. The survey, published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal ...