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Item Investigating the "wisdom of crowds" at scale(Association for Computing Machinery, Inc acmhelp@acm.org, 2015) Mysore, A.S.; Yaligar, V.S.; Ibarra, I.A.; Simoiu, C.; Goel, S.; Arvind, R.; Sumanth, C.; Srikantan, A.; Bhargav, H.S.; Pahadia, M.; Dobhal, T.; Ahmed, A.; Shankar, M.; Agarwal, H.; Agarwal, R.; Anirudh-Kondaveeti, S.; Arun-Gokhale, S.; Attri, A.; Chandra, A.; Chilukuri, Y.; Dharmaji, S.; Garg, D.; Gupta, N.; Gupta, P.; Jacob, G.M.; Jain, S.; Joshi, S.; Khajuria, T.; Khillan, S.; Konam, S.; Kumar-Kolla, P.; Loomba, S.; Madan, R.; Maharaja, A.; Mathur, V.; Munshi, B.; Nawazish, M.; Neehar-Kurukunda, V.; Nirmal-Gavarraju, V.; Parashar, S.; Parikh, H.; Paritala, A.; Patil, A.; Phatak, R.; Pradhan, M.; Ravichander, A.; Sangeeth, K.; Sankaranarayanan, S.; Sehgal, V.; Sheshan, A.; Shibiraj, S.; Singh, A.; Singh, A.; Sinha, P.; Soni, P.; Thomas, B.; Tuteja, L.; Varma-Dattada, K.; Venkataraman, S.; Verma, P.; Yelurwar, I.In a variety of problem domains, it has been observed that the aggregate opinions of groups are often more accurate than those of the constituent individuals, a phenomenon that has been termed the "wisdom of the crowd." Yet, perhaps surprisingly, there is still little consensus on how generally the phenomenon holds, how best to aggregate crowd judgements, and how social influence affects estimates. We investigate these questions by taking a meta wisdom of crowds approach. With a distributed team of over 100 student researchers across 17 institutions in the United States and India, we develop a large-scale online experiment to systematically study the wisdom of crowds effect for 1,000 different tasks in 50 subject domains. These tasks involve various types of knowledge (e.g., explicit knowledge, tacit knowledge, and prediction), question formats (e.g., multiple choice and point estimation), and inputs (e.g., text, audio, and video). To examine the effect of social influence, participants are randomly assigned to one of three different experiment conditions in which they see varying degrees of information on the responses of others. In this ongoing project, we are now preparing to recruit participants via Amazon's Mechanical Turk.Item LBA: Matching Theory Based Latency-Sensitive Binary Offloading in IoT-Fog Networks(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2024) Soni, P.; Deshlahre, O.C.; Satpathy, A.; Addya, S.K.The Internet of Things (IoT) is growing more popular with applications like healthcare services, traffic monitoring, video streaming, smart homes, etc. These applications produce an enormous amount of data, so a realistic option in this instance is to offload computational tasks to their proximity fog nodes (FNs) instead of the remote cloud. However, a negligent offloading strategy may cause anomalous computational traffic load at the FNs, causing congestion that may adversely affect the latency. However, the latency of task flows from IoT devices comprises communications latency at BS and computational latency at FNs. Therefore, designing offloading algorithms to distribute the computational load at FN evenly and efficiently utilize the FN resources is crucial. To solve this problem, we proposed LBA in a fog network with a binary offloading strategy using the matching theory-based approach. We utilize the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) to generate the preference list. Furthermore, the binary offloading technique follows the deferred acceptance algorithm (DAA) to produce a stable assignment, and the complete offloading problem is modeled as a one-to-many matching game. Comprehensive simulations ensure that LBA can accomplish a better-balanced assignment for homogeneous and heterogeneous input concerning all the baseline algorithms. © 2024 IEEE.Item Drone-Assisted Load Distribution Framework for Traffic Optimization in IoT Networks(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2025) Soni, P.; Mense, O.M.; Kanti Addya, S.Device connectivity has been redefined by the rapid development of the Internet of Things (IoT) technology, enabling diverse applications in areas such as smart cities, smart homes, and healthcare. These applications produce massive amounts of data, making it a significant challenge to offload tasks to cloud servers. However, the physical distance between devices often leads to latency issues for IoT systems, impacting time-sensitive applications. Fog computing tackles this issue by processing data closer to IoT devices. However, a high user density can strain the capacity of a macro base station, potentially leading to congestion. Drone Base Stations (DBSs) provide a flexible solution by acting as mobile relays to reduce latency and traffic burden. To address this issue, this work proposes a drone-assisted load distribution strategy in IoT networks. In our proposed approach, we deploy DBS efficiently using a greedy optimization technique. However, after the deployment of DBS, an optimal base station assignment framework dynamically connects user equipment to the most suitable base station, helping to minimize latency and enhance network performance. This dual-phase approach provides a scalable and practical solution for realtime IoT applications. Through extensive simulations, ensures that our proposed approach achieves a more balanced assignment compared to baseline algorithms. © 2025 IEEE.Item TReB: Task dependency aware-Resource allocation for Internet of Things using Binary offloading(Elsevier B.V., 2025) Soni, P.; Hajare, A.G.; Keerthan Kumar, K.K.; Addya, S.K.The rapid growth of Internet of Things (IoT) applications in domains such as healthcare, smart homes, and autonomous vehicles has led to an exponential increase in data generated by compute intensive tasks. Efficiently offloading these tasks to nearby computational resources in fog environments remains a significant challenge due to the inherent heterogeneity and constrained resources of Fog Nodes (FNs). Most of the existing approaches fail to address the trade-offs between latency, energy, and resource utilization, particularly when managing dependent and independent task workloads. Moreover, establishing an offloading strategy within a densely interconnected IoT network is known to be NP-hard. To overcome these limitations, in this work, we propose a Task dependency-Aware Resource allocation for IoT using Binary offloading (TReB) framework by considering both independent and dependent tasks of IoT applications. The TReB utilizes the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) technique to generate the preferences of FNs and tasks by considering diverse attributes. With preferences established, a binary offloading is handled through a one-to-many matching procedure, utilizing a Deferred Acceptance Algorithm (DAA). It allows TReB to jointly minimize system energy consumption, latency, and the number of outages in an IoT network. We evaluated the effectiveness of TReB through simulation experiments, and results show that the proposed approach achieves a 49.1%, 62.4%, and 41.7% minimization in overall system latency, energy, and outages compared to the existing baselines. © 2025 Elsevier B.V.