• An Intelligent Resource Reservation for Crowdsourced Live Video Streaming Applications in Geo-Distributed Cloud Environment 

      Baccour E.; Haouari F.; Erbad A.; Mohamed A.; Bilal K.; ... more authors ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2021 , Article)
      Crowdsourced live video streaming (livecast) services such as Facebook Live, YouNow, Douyu, and Twitch are gaining more momentum recently. Allocating the limited resources in a cost-effective manner while maximizing the ...
    • Arabic corpora for credibility analysis 

      Al Zaatari, Ayman; El Ballouli, Rim; Elbassuoni, Shady; El-Hajj, Wassim; Hajj, Hazem; ... more authors ( European Language Resources Association (ELRA) , 2016 , Conference Paper)
      A significant portion of data generated on blogging and microblogging websites is non-credible as shown in many recent studies. To filter out such non-credible information, machine learning can be deployed to build automatic ...
    • Building a Test Collection for Significant-Event Detection in Arabic Tweets 

      Almerekhi, Hind Ali (2016 , Master Thesis)
      With the increasing popularity of microblogging services like Twitter, researchers discov- ered a rich medium for tackling real-life problems like event detection. However, event detection in Twitter is often obstructed ...
    • Crowd vs. Expert: What can relevance judgment rationales teach us about assessor disagreement? 

      Kutlu, M.; Kutlu, Mucahid; McDonnell, Tyler; Barkallah, Yassmine; Elsayed, Tamer; ... more authors ( ACM , 2018 , Conference Paper)
      © 2018 ACM. While crowdsourcing offers a low-cost, scalable way to collect relevance judgments, lack of transparency with remote crowd work has limited understanding about the quality of collected judgments. In prior work, ...
    • Crowdsourced multi-view live video streaming using cloud computing 

      Bilal, Kashif; Erbad, Aiman; Hefeeda, Mohamed ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2017 , Article)
      Advances and commoditization of media generation devices enable capturing and sharing of any special event by multiple attendees. We propose a novel system to collect individual video streams (views) captured for the same ...
    • Crowdsourced MultiView Live Video Streaming using Cloud Computing 

      Erbad, Aiman; Bilal, Kashif ( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2018 , Conference Paper)
      Multi-view videos are composed of multiple video streams captured simultaneously using multiple cameras from various angles (different viewpoints) of a scene. Multi-view videos offer more appealing and realistic view of ...
    • DART: A large dataset of dialectal Arabic tweets 

      Alsarsour, Israa; Mohamed, Esraa; Suwaileh, Reem; Elsayed, Tamer ( European Language Resources Association (ELRA) , 2019 , Conference Paper)
      In this paper, we present a new large manually-annotated multi-dialect dataset of Arabic tweets that is publicly available. The Dialectal ARabic Tweets (DART) dataset has about 25K tweets that are annotated via crowdsourcing ...
    • An Efficient Decision Support System for the Selection of Appropriate Crowd in Crowdsourcing 

      Huang, Yongjun; Nazir, Shah; Wu, Jiyu; Hussain Khoso, Fida; Ali, Farhad; ... more authors ( Hindawi , 2021 , Article)
      Crowdsourcing is a complex task-solving model that utilizes humans for solving organizational specific problems. For assigning a crowdsourced task to an online crowd, crowd selection is carried out to select appropriate ...
    • EveTAR: A new test collection for event detection in Arabic tweets 

      Almerekhi, Hind; Hasanain, Maram; Elsayed, Tamer ( Association for Computing Machinery, Inc , 2016 , Conference Paper)
      Research on event detection in Twitter is often obstructed by the lack of publicly-available evaluation mechanisms such as test collections; this problem is more severe when considering the scarcity of them in languages ...
    • Mix and match: Collaborative expert-crowd judging for building test collections accurately and affordably 

      Kutlu, Mucahid; McDonnell, Tyler; Sheshadri, Aashish; Elsayed, Tamer; Lease, Matthew ( CEUR-WS , 2018 , Conference Paper)
      Crowdsourcing offers an affordable and scalable means to collect relevance judgments for information retrieval test collections. However, crowd assessors may showhigher variance in judgment quality than trusted assessors. ...
    • Mobile crowdsourced sensors selection for journey services 

      Ben Said, Ahmed; Erradi, Abdelkarim; Gharia Neiat, Azadeh; Bouguettaya, Athman ( Springer Verlag , 2018 , Conference Paper)
      We propose a mobile crowdsourced sensors selection approach to improve the journey planning service especially in areas where no wireless or vehicular sensors are available. We develop a location estimation model of journey ...
    • Multicast at Edge: An Edge Network Architecture for Service-Less Crowdsourced Live Video Multicast 

      Zahoor K.; Bilal K.; Erbad A.; Mohamed A.; Guizani M. ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2021 , Article)
      Using smartphones, tablets, and other portable/handheld devices, we have become more reliant on the video streaming services for entertainment and remote work. Mobile data traffic has grown eighteen folds over the past ...
    • QoE-Aware Resource Allocation for Crowdsourced Live Streaming: A Machine Learning Approach 

      Haouari F.; Baccour E.; Erbad A.; Mohamed A.; Guizani M. ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2019 , Conference Paper)
      Driven by the tremendous technological advancement of personal devices and the prevalence of wireless mobile network accesses, the world has witnessed an explosion in crowdsourced live streaming. Ensuring a better viewers ...
    • Service-Less Video Multicast in 5G: Enablers and Challenges 

      Zahoor K.; Bilal K.; Erbad A.; Mohamed A. ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2020 , Article)
      The massive upsurge in production and demand of crowdsourced live streaming necessitates feasible and cost effective solutions in future cellular networks. Video multicast is one of the viable options to deliver live video ...
    • TEAM-BASED INNOVATION CONTESTS FOR CROWDSOURCING: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY ON IDEACONNECTION PLATFORM 

      Hossain, Mokter; Piazza, Mariangela; Mazzola, Erica ( World Scientific Publishing , 2022 , Article)
      Crowdsourcing for innovation contests represents a promising mechanism to access and integrate external ideas. Among various crowdsourcing types, online, team-based contest is one of the most prominent one. The objective ...
    • Transcoding resources forecasting and reservation for crowdsourced live streaming 

      Haouari F.; Baccour E.; Erbad A.; Mohamed A.; Guizani M. ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2019 , Conference Paper)
      During the last decade, empowered by the technological advances of mobile devices and the revolution of wireless mobile network access, crowdsourced live streaming has become more popular. Ensuring a stable high-quality ...