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    • A budget feasible mechanism for hiring doctors in e-healthcare 

      Kumar Singh, Vikash; Mukhopadhyay, Sajal; Xhafa Xhafa, Fatos; Sharma, Aniruddh (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2018)
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      Throughout the past decade, there has been an extensive research on scheduling the hospital resources such as the operation theatre(s) (OTs) and the experts (such as nurses, doctors etc.) inside the hospitals. With the ...
    • A budget feasible peer graded mechanism for iot-based crowdsourcing 

      Kumar Singh, Vikash; Mukhopadhyay, Sajal; Xhafa Xhafa, Fatos; Sharma, Aniruddh (Springer, 2020-04)
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      We develop and extend a line of recent works on the design of mechanisms for heterogeneous tasks assignment problem in ’crowdsourcing’. The budgeted market we consider consists of multiple task requesters and multiple IoT ...
    • A Framework for allocation of IoT devices to the fog service providers in strategic setting 

      Bandyopadhyay, Anjan; Xhafa Xhafa, Fatos; Mallik, Saurav; Krause, Paul; Mukhopadhyay, Sajal; Kumar Singh, Vikash; Maulik, Ujjwal (Springer, 2019)
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      In the IoT+Fog+Cloud architecture, with the ever increasing growth of IoT devices, allocation of IoT devices to the Fog service providers will be challenging and needs to be addressed properly in both the strategic and ...
    • A Game theoretic framework for surplus food distribution in smart cities and beyond 

      Sanyal, Surja; Kumar Singh, Vikash; Xhafa Xhafa, Fatos; Sanyal, Banhi; Mukhopadhyay, Sajal (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2021-06)
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      Food waste is currently a major challenge for the world. It is the precursor to several socioeconomic problems that are plaguing modern society. To counter and to, simultaneously, stand by the undernourished, surplus food ...
    • A mechanism design framework for hiring experts in e-healthcare 

      Kumar Singh, Vikash; Mukhopadhyay, Sajal; Xhafa Xhafa, Fatos (2020)
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      We investigate the problem of hiring experts (motivated socially and monetarily) from outside of the hospital(s) in e-healthcare through the lens of mechanism design with and without money. This paper presents the mechanisms ...
    • A quality-assuring, combinatorial auction based mechanism for IoT-based crowdsourcing 

      Kumar Singh, Vikash; Mukhopadhyay, Sajal; Xhafa Xhafa, Fatos; Krause, Paul (2020-03)
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      In this chapter, we study some research issues from IoT-based crowdsourcing in a strategic setting. We have considered the scenario in IoT-based crowdsourcing, where there are multiple task requesters and multiple IoT ...
    • An auction framework for DaaS in cloud computing 

      Bandyopadhyay, Anjan; Xhafa Xhafa, Fatos; Mukhopadhyay, Sajal (Springer, 2018)
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      Data as a Service (DaaS) is the next emerging technology in cloud computing research. Small clouds operating as a group may exploit the DaaS efficiently to perform substantial amount of work. In this paper an auction ...
    • An auction framework for DaaS in cloud computing and its evaluation 

      Bandyopadhyay, Anjan; Xhafa Xhafa, Fatos; Mukhopadhyay, Sajal; Kumar Singh, Vikash; Sharma, Aniruddh (2019-05-06)
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      Data-as-a-service (DaaS) is the next emerging technology in cloud computing research. Small clouds operating as a group may exploit the DaaS efficiently to perform the substantial amount of work. In this paper, an auction ...
    • An Efficient algorithm to prevent procrastination in spatial crowdsourcing 

      Debnath, Naren; Mukhopadhyay, Sajal; Xhafa Xhafa, Fatos (Springer, 2024)
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      Spatial crowdsourcing entails many research works that address the issue of meeting deadlines (for task submission) by task executors (TEs) where they can submit the tasks at any point of time within the given deadline. ...
    • An Incentive framework for surplus food distribution in the context of smart cities 

      Sanyal, Surja; Mukhopadhyay, Sajal; Xhafa Xhafa, Fatos; Kumar Singh, Vikash; Sanyal, Banhi (Springer, 2022)
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      Food donation is an absolute necessity for today’s society in order to counter the wastage of edible food. The key to this food movement is volunteer availability which aids in delivering the surplus food to a geographically ...
    • An IoT-based time constrained spectrum trading in wireless communication for tertiary market 

      Chowdhury, Anil Bikash; Kumar Singh, Vikash; Xhafa Xhafa, Fatos; Krause, Paul; Mukhopadhyay, Sajal; Dhananjaya, Meghana M. (Springer, 2021)
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      In this chapter, we study some research issues from IoT-based spectrum trading in Wireless Communication in a strategic setting. We consider the scenario in which there are multiple secondary users (such as non-governmental ...
    • Bayesian Inference in MANTID - An Update 

      Vidal, B.L.; Oram, E.; Banos, R.A.; Pardo Soto, Luis Carlos; Mukhopadhyay, Sajal; Fernandez Alonso, Felix (2018)
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      In the context of neutron science, Bayesian inference methods have been recently implemented within the MANTID framework [Monserrat D et al. 2015 J. Phys. Conf. Ser. 663 012009 (2015)]. In this contribution, we highlight ...
    • Crowdsourced Project Selection in Tourist Spots with Voting in Smart Cities 

      Sanyal, Surja; Mukhopadhyay, Sajal; Xhafa Xhafa, Fatos; Mukhopadhyay, JAYA (Springer, 2024)
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      The tourism industry is a valuable sector generating major income for nations. The local Government of a tourist spot may undertake several projects to be implemented for the benefit of tourism in that place. Currently, ...
    • Enhanced incentive schemes for volunteers to distribute surplus food in smart cities 

      Sanyal, Surja; Mukhopadhyay, Sajal; Xhafa Xhafa, Fatos (Elsevier, 2023-04)
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      Food wastage is a major problem in today’s world and the distribution of food surplus is undoubtedly one of the leading solutions to the problem. Surplus distribution is widely practised across the globe and there are ...
    • Hiring expert consultants in e-healthcare: an analytics-based two sided matching approach 

      Kumar Singh, Vikash; Mukhopadhyay, Sajal; Xhafa Xhafa, Fatos; Sharma, Aniruddh; Roy, Arpan (2018-11)
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      Very often in some censorious healthcare scenario, there may be a need to have some expert consultancies (especially by doctors) that are not available in-house to the hospitals. Earlier, this interesting healthcare scenario ...
    • Incentives in surplus food distribution for smart cities and beyond: an activity aware solution 

      Sanyal, Surja; Mukhopadhyay, Sajal; Xhafa Xhafa, Fatos; Kumar Singh, Vikash; Sanyal, Banhi (Springer, 2023-05)
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      Food surplus donation has emerged as a popular means to counter the food wastage issue that the world has been facing in recent years. The fact that this also addresses the food insecurity challenge is an added bonus. The ...
    • Matching IoT devices to the fog service providers: a mechanism design perspective 

      Bandyopadhyay, Anjan; Kumar Singh, Vikash; Mukhopadhyay, Sajal; Rai, Ujjwa; Xhafa Xhafa, Fatos; Krause, Paul (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2020-12-01)
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      In the Internet of Things (IoT) + Fog + Cloud architecture, with the unprecedented growth of IoT devices, one of the challenging issues that needs to be tackled is to allocate Fog service providers (FSPs) to IoT devices, ...
    • Spectrum trading in wireless communication for tertiary market 

      Chowdhury, Anil Bikash; Xhafa Xhafa, Fatos; Rongpipi, Rupkabon; Mukhopadhyay, Sajal; Kumar Singh, Vikash (Springer, 2018)
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      Number of devices needing wireless communication is more than ever. The main ingredient of wireless communication-the spectrum-is limited and due to the unprecedented growth of smart devices the demand for spectrum is high. ...