Enhanced incentive schemes for volunteers to distribute surplus food in smart cities

Food wastage is a major problem in today’s world and the distribution of food surplus is undoubtedly one of the leading solutions to the problem. Surplus distribution is widely practised across the globe and there are several communities for the same as well. However, the success of these movements...

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Autores: Sanyal, Surja, Mukhopadhyay, Sajal, Xhafa Xhafa, Fatos|||0000-0001-6569-5497
Formato: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Recursos:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
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https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2023.104409
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Palavra-chave:Food supply
Food waste
Smart cities
Food wastage
Food recovery
Surplus food distribution
Volunteer incentive
Volunteer participation
Sybil attack
Aliments -- Abastament
Malbaratament d'aliments
Ciutats intel·ligents
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Informàtica::Aplicacions de la informàtica
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spelling Enhanced incentive schemes for volunteers to distribute surplus food in smart citiesSanyal, SurjaMukhopadhyay, SajalXhafa Xhafa, Fatos|||0000-0001-6569-5497Food supplyFood wasteSmart citiesFood wastageFood recoverySurplus food distributionVolunteer incentiveVolunteer participationSybil attackAliments -- AbastamentMalbaratament d'alimentsCiutats intel·ligentsÀrees temàtiques de la UPC::Informàtica::Aplicacions de la informàticaFood wastage is a major problem in today’s world and the distribution of food surplus is undoubtedly one of the leading solutions to the problem. Surplus distribution is widely practised across the globe and there are several communities for the same as well. However, the success of these movements are determined by the active participation of volunteers. In addition, volunteer availability is an issue that is dependent on several different factors. An incentive module for the volunteers can normalize the availability of the volunteers. Such incentive modules are prone to identity duplication attacks and the implemented solutions do not really encourage volunteer hierarchical structures. In this paper, an incentive module that resists identity duplication and promotes the hierarchical structure between volunteers is presented. In addition, an improved matching module to match the food donors to the receivers utilizing the available volunteers optimally is also proposed"Fatos Xhafa’s work is supported by Project “Optimizing Carsharing and Ridesharing Mobility in Smart Sustainable Cities” (grant 21S09355-001) of the Ajuntament of Barcelona and the Fundació “la Caixa” under the framework of the Barcelona Science Plan 2020–2023"Peer ReviewedElsevier20232023-04-0120232023-02-17journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501AMhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_ab4af688f83e57aainfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/2117/383658https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2023.104409reponame:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPCinstname:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)Inglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/3836582026-05-27T15:37:01Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Enhanced incentive schemes for volunteers to distribute surplus food in smart cities
title Enhanced incentive schemes for volunteers to distribute surplus food in smart cities
spellingShingle Enhanced incentive schemes for volunteers to distribute surplus food in smart cities
Sanyal, Surja
Food supply
Food waste
Smart cities
Food wastage
Food recovery
Surplus food distribution
Volunteer incentive
Volunteer participation
Sybil attack
Aliments -- Abastament
Malbaratament d'aliments
Ciutats intel·ligents
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Informàtica::Aplicacions de la informàtica
title_short Enhanced incentive schemes for volunteers to distribute surplus food in smart cities
title_full Enhanced incentive schemes for volunteers to distribute surplus food in smart cities
title_fullStr Enhanced incentive schemes for volunteers to distribute surplus food in smart cities
title_full_unstemmed Enhanced incentive schemes for volunteers to distribute surplus food in smart cities
title_sort Enhanced incentive schemes for volunteers to distribute surplus food in smart cities
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Sanyal, Surja
Mukhopadhyay, Sajal
Xhafa Xhafa, Fatos|||0000-0001-6569-5497
author Sanyal, Surja
author_facet Sanyal, Surja
Mukhopadhyay, Sajal
Xhafa Xhafa, Fatos|||0000-0001-6569-5497
author_role author
author2 Mukhopadhyay, Sajal
Xhafa Xhafa, Fatos|||0000-0001-6569-5497
author2_role author
author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Food supply
Food waste
Smart cities
Food wastage
Food recovery
Surplus food distribution
Volunteer incentive
Volunteer participation
Sybil attack
Aliments -- Abastament
Malbaratament d'aliments
Ciutats intel·ligents
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Informàtica::Aplicacions de la informàtica
topic Food supply
Food waste
Smart cities
Food wastage
Food recovery
Surplus food distribution
Volunteer incentive
Volunteer participation
Sybil attack
Aliments -- Abastament
Malbaratament d'aliments
Ciutats intel·ligents
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Informàtica::Aplicacions de la informàtica
description Food wastage is a major problem in today’s world and the distribution of food surplus is undoubtedly one of the leading solutions to the problem. Surplus distribution is widely practised across the globe and there are several communities for the same as well. However, the success of these movements are determined by the active participation of volunteers. In addition, volunteer availability is an issue that is dependent on several different factors. An incentive module for the volunteers can normalize the availability of the volunteers. Such incentive modules are prone to identity duplication attacks and the implemented solutions do not really encourage volunteer hierarchical structures. In this paper, an incentive module that resists identity duplication and promotes the hierarchical structure between volunteers is presented. In addition, an improved matching module to match the food donors to the receivers utilizing the available volunteers optimally is also proposed
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2023
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