Sajal Mukhopadhyay

National Institute of Technology, Durgapur · Department of Information Technology

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 of the surplus donors with the receivers needs the constant availability of willing volunteers to make this movement a...

We consider one of the scenarios in IoT-based mobile crowdsourcing in strategic setting, where we have single task requester (or task provider) and multiple task executors (or IoT devices). In this, a task requester have multiple heterogeneous tasks along with the publicly known budget. One constraint that is taken into consideration in terms of bu...

Cloud computing, as an infrastructure less service, has gained a lot of attention over a decade now. The surge for the resource allocation and pricing have been at the centre stage of the research for a while in cloud computing. In this paper, we have proposed an efficient resource allocation and dynamic pricing algorithm for completion time failur...

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 organizations (NGOs), institutional organizations, foundations, etc.) having available un-utilized spectrum and multiple terti...

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 redistribution has surfaced as a viable solution. Information and Communications Technology (ICT)-mediated food redistribution i...

Food waste is a major challenge for the present world. It is the precursor to several socioeconomic problems that are plaguing the modern society. To counter the same and to, simultaneously, stand by the undernourished, surplus food redistribution has surfaced as a viable solution. Information and Communications Technology (ICT)-mediated food redis...

Mobile crowdsourcing (MCS) is gaining real attention in recent years as it has found widespread applications such as traffic monitoring, pollution control surveillance, locating endangered species, and many others. This paradigm of research is showing an interesting power of smart devices that are held by intelligent agents (such as human beings)....

Crowdsourcing with intelligent agent felicitated with portable smart devices is popularly known as mobile crowdsourcing (MCS) or participatory sensing (PS). To motivate the task executors for performing the available tasks has been a challenge in an MCS environment. In this paper we have addressed this issue in a double auction environment when the...

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, especially in a game-theoretic environment. Here, the issue of allocation of FSPs to the IoT devices is sifted with game-theoreti...

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 devices as task executers. In this, each task requester is endowed with a single distinct task along with the publicly known bud...

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 devices as task executors. Each task requester has multiple tasks, with the tasks having start and finish times. Based on the start...

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 non-strategic settings. In this paper, we have addressed this allocation problem in strategic settings. The framework is developed...

We investigate the problem of hiring experts from outside of the hospital(s) in e-healthcare through mechanism design with and without money. We handle the following scenarios: (1) multiple patients and multiple experts with patients having zero budget and (2) single or multiple patients and multiple experts with patient(s) having some positive bud...

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. To serve all the devices needing wireless communication, intelligent spectrum sensing and its trading has been the hot topic o...

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 framework is studied and evaluated when the small clouds are strategic in nature. We present the system model and formal definit...

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 framework is studied and evaluated when the small clouds are strategic in nature. We present the system model and formal definit...

With the emerging technologies (such as video conferencing, smartphone, etc.) this is no longer a dream but a true fact, that for critical medical cases in hospitals, doctors from around the world could be hired, who will serve the patients by their physical or virtual presence. Earlier, this situation of taking the expert consultancies from outsid...

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 devices as task executers; where each task requester is endowed with a single distinct task along with the publicly known budget...

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 interest- ing healthcare scenario of hiring the expert consultants (mainly doctors) from outside of the hospitals had been studied with the robust concepts o...

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 of hiring the expert consultants (mainly doctors) from outside of the hospitals had been studied with the robust concepts of...

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 technological growth, mainly advancement in communication media (such as smartphones, video conferencing, smartwatches etc.) one ma...

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. To serve all the devices needing wireless communication, intelligent spectrum sensing and its trading has been the hot topic o...

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 framework is studied when the small clouds are strategic in nature. We present the system model and formal definition of the problem....

As mobile devices have been ubiquitous, participatory sensing emerges as a powerful tool to solve many contemporary real-life problems. Here, we contemplate the participatory sensing in online double auction environment by considering the location information of the participating agents. In this paper, we propose a truthful mechanism in this settin...

During the last decade, scheduling the healthcare services (such as staffs and OTs) inside the hospitals have assumed a central role in healthcare. Recently, some works are addressed in the direction of hiring the expert consultants (mainly doctors) for the critical healthcare scenarios from outside of the medical unit, in both strategic and non-st...

Agents (specially humans) with smart devices are stemming with astounding rapidity and that may play a big role in information and communication technology apart from being used only as a mere calling devices. Inculcating the power of smart devices carried by the agents in several different applications is commonly termed as participatory sensing (...

The doctors (or expert consultants) are the critical resources on which the success of critical medical cases are heavily dependent. With the emerging technologies (such as video conferencing, smartphone, etc.) this is no longer a dream but a true fact, that for critical medical cases in a hospital, expert consultants from around the world could be...

Employment of smart devices carried by human agents in the data collection process has found a widespread attention in the research community and is commonly termed as participatory sensing (PS). In this paper, we propose a truthful online double auction in this PS environment comprising a considerable theoretical analysis.

Participatory sensing system (PSS) is an emerging field of research where the fundamental idea is to employ the autonomous agents (in this paper humans) carrying smart devices, as a virtual sensor for collecting and transmitting information. The most grinding work is to motivate the human agents carrying smart devices in the data collecting process...

E-Healthcare system is emerging as one of the most upcoming technologies to provide an efficient and automated healthcare infrastructure. Earlier there had been some works to schedule the internal staffs of a medical unit (may be very large) for working in the operation theater or controlling the outdoor units. However, it is observed that, with th...

Recently spectrum trading has got a serious attention as it is observed that a significant amount of the spectra that are held by the primary users (spectrum owners or sellers) are remaining un-utilized. Open, market-based spectrum trading motivates the primary users to lease their un-utilized spectrum to new spectrum users (secondary users or buye...

Participatory Sensing system (PSS) is being thought of as an alternative model in the pervasive computing environment, to collect effective data from mobile human agents, where deployment of sensor agents to collect data will be costly. One of the main difficulties in collecting data from the human agents is that, they are not willing to participat...

First-come-first-serve (FCFS) scheme is used for selling the tickets in ticket market that is a multi-million dollar industry for any popular event. But in a competitive environment is this FCFS efficient? In earlier literature it has been shown that the auction based alternative solutions using the framework of mechanism design, a sub field of gam...

Wikipedia is the world's largest collaboratively edited source of encyclopedic information repository consisting almost 1.5 million articles and more than 90,000 contributors. Although, since its inception on 2001, the numbers of contributors were huge, A study made in 2009 found that members (contributors) may initially contribute to site for plea...

In paid crowdsourcing environment an organization post a task/problem atvarious platform like freelancer.com and the mass (crowd/developer) is invited to complete the problem. This environment is becoming an emerging trend to solve a problem with the brain of mass. At present the allocation and the payment made to the developers are mostly based on...

Ticket market is a multi-million dollar industry for any popular event. When the tickets are sold by the event organizers in the ticket market, the most popular scheme used is the first-come-first-serve (FCFS). But in a competitive environment is this FCFS efficient? In this paper this situation is investigated from the view point of profit making...

More recently, mechanism design has emerged as an important tool to model, analyze, and solve situation where the data are held by the self interested agents. In paper [2] we have modeled the situation where the tickets of a football match (considered as our sporting event) in J-league (Japan Professional Football League) is to be sold and the dema...

The J League (Japan Professional Football League), is the top professional association football league in Japan. Contested by 18 clubs, with teams playing 34 games each totalling 306 games in the season. It is one of the most successful and lucrative football league in the Asian club football. It is also the only league which has been given top cla...

The Basketball is uniquely American game and most popular in this country and now getting popularity in worldwide. National Basketball Association(NBA)is the major basket ball league conducting basketball matches event of every year in the month of february. In a basketball match, k tickets are available and more than k people give demand for a tic...

The 20-over game, commonly known as Twenty20 or T20, is being described as the most revolutionary step since the advent of one-day cricket since 40 years. Twenty20 cricket is immensely popular in India. Wherever the format has been tried it has been a huge success with record number of crowds coming to see the game. Indian Premiere League(IPL) is a...

Indian film industry is one of the biggest in the world. A considerable number of movies out of the all movies released in a year are considered as hit movies. In a cinema hall k tickets are available and for a hit movie more than k people give demand for a ticket to watch the movie. To earn more profit in that environment, in this paper an auction...

Indian Railways have one of the biggest infrastructures in terms of number of Express trains run per day across cities . It is comparable to any railways in the world. For each Express train there is a "TATKAL" scheme that reserves few seats on emergency basis. In the existing scheme for each seat a ticket is issued after charging a fixed price. Ho...

In this paper, we propose a proactive burst assembly scheme for optical burst switching network where bursts are created in such a way that it suffers minimum loss at the immediate outgoing link. The future reservation states of individual wavelength channels are used to construct and update the availability state of the whole link as a function of...