Generating Heat Maps of Popular Routes Online from Massive Mobile Sports Tracking Application Data in Milliseconds While Respecting Privacy

Generating Heat Maps of Popular Routes Online from Massive Mobile Sports Tracking Application Data in Milliseconds While Respecting Privacy

The breakthrough of GPS-equipped smartphones has enabled the collection of track data from human mobility on massive scales that can be used in route recommendation, urban planning and traffic management. In this work we present a fast map server that can generate and visualize heat maps of popular routes online from massive sports track data based on client preferences, e.g., running routes la...

A Microsoft VBA Application for Generating Heat Maps

A choropleth map is a form of thematic map used to portray the structural characteristics of some particular geographical distribution not apparent in data presented in tabular form. Preparation of a choropleth map starts with the assignment of map features to classes based on the value of a specific feature attribute followed by the association of classes of features with appropriate map color...

Privacy-Respecting Auctions as Incentive Mechanisms in Mobile Crowd Sensing

In many mobile crowdsensing scenarios it is desirable to give micro-payments to contributors as an incentive for their participation. However, to further encourage participants to use the system, one important requirement is protection of user privacy. In this work we present a reverse auction mechanism as an efficient way to offer incentives to users by allowing them to determine their own pri...

Integrating Anonymous Credentials with eIDs for Privacy-Respecting Online Authentication

Electronic Identity (eID) cards are rapidly emerging in Europe and are gaining user acceptance. As an authentication token, an eID card is a gateway to personal information and as such it is subject to privacy risks. Several European countries have taken extra care to protect their citizens against these risks. A notable example is the German eID card, which we take as a case study in this pape...

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