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Record W4417260753 · doi:10.1145/3785006

Hybrid Machine Learning–Based Trust Management Approach to Secure the Mobile Crowdsourcing

2025· article· en· W4417260753 on OpenAlex
Sohrab Khan, Arnab Kumar Biswas, Farhan Ullah, Nayab Imtiaz, Zeeshan Bin Siddique

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no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
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Bibliographic record

VenueDigital Threats Research and Practice · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicMobile Crowdsensing and Crowdsourcing
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersQueen's UniversityQueen's University Belfast
KeywordsCrowdsourcingCredibilityTrust management (information system)Mobile computingMobile deviceReliability (semiconductor)CornerstoneVariety (cybernetics)

Abstract

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The Internet of Things (IoT) has become a cornerstone in modern automation and data exchange, with IoT devices increasingly embedded into daily life. This development coincides with a rapid growth in mobile device usage and the proliferation of interactive mobile applications, catalyzing the evolution of mobile crowdsourcing. Such applications offer a range of functionalities, from automated data collection through sensor-driven and location-aware services to manual input via user surveys and feedback. For mobile crowdsourcing, particularly in anonymous and ever changing environments, modern trust management systems rarely deal with the problem of participants credibility and reliability. This article presents a hybrid approach that integrates sophisticated trust management techniques with Support Vector Machine (SVM) to improve the security of mobile crowdsourcing platforms. The system considerably enhances the reliability of trust evaluations, successfully protecting against malicious actors. It provides a thorough trustworthiness score to contributors by utilizing a variety of variables, including social networking site data, reputation measures, and user behavior patterns. The high efficacy of our model is demonstrated by an exploratory evaluation of a real mobile crowdsourcing platform, which achieved an accuracy rate of approximately 99.85%.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScholarly communication
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Other design · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.968
Threshold uncertainty score0.998

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0030.001
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.042
GPT teacher head0.343
Teacher spread0.301 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it