Collaborative Teams Recruitment Based on Dual Constraints of Willingness and Trust for Crowd Sensing

As crowd sensing tasks become more complex, it is increasingly needed for participants to form teams to collaborate interactively in order to complete tasks more efficiently. It is valuable to fully understand user behavior, the organizational principles of crowd collaboration teams and incorporate them into the user recruitment process. In fact, there is a two-way process of subjective and objective selection for building a team in crowd sensing. From the participant’s perspective, the willingness of users to participate in the task is a subjective factor; from the platform’s perspective, the trust relationship between users is an objective factor. However, existing work has not well recognized the value of including collaborative teams in the crowd sensing recruitment process and has not considered the willingness and trust relationships between participants simultaneously, which results in poor quality of service (QoS) among recruited users. To address this problem, we propose a willingness and trust-based collaborative team recruitment method (WT-CTRM). First, we construct a willingness network (WN) and a trust network (TN) to describe the interaction of willingness and trust among the collaborated users respectively. Based on these networks, we then predict the unknown willingness and trust relationships between users for collaboration by using graph convolutional networks (GCNs). Finally, we build collaborative teams for the user recruitment process of crowd sensing based on the consensus constraints of the predicted willingness network and trust network. Simulation results show that the recruitment scheme significantly improves the QoS in task scenarios with collaborative requirements.