Efficient event detection by exploiting crowds

  • Authors:
  • Ioannis Boutsis;Vana Kalogeraki;Dimitrios Gunopulos

  • Affiliations:
  • Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens, Greece;Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens, Greece;University of Athens, Athens, Greece

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 7th ACM international conference on Distributed event-based systems
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Encouraging users to participate in community-based sensing and collection for the purpose of identifying events of interest for the community has found important applications in the recent years in a wide variety of domains including entertainment, transportation and environmental monitoring. One important challenge in these settings is how significant events can be detected by exploiting the data sensed, gathered and shared by the crowd, while respecting the resource costs. In this paper we investigate the use of dynamic clustering and sampling techniques that allow us to significantly reduce utilization costs by clustering low-level streams of events based on their geo-spatial locations and then selectively retrieving the ones that depict the highest interest. Our experimental results illustrate that our approach is practical, efficient and depicts good performance.