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This paper describes the design, implementation and deployment of LineKing (LK), a crowdsourced line wait-time monitoring service. LK consists of a smartphone component (that provides automatic, energy-efficient, and accurate wait-time detection), and a cloud backend (that uses the collected data to provide accurate wait-time estimation). LK is used on a daily basis by hundreds of users to monitor the wait-times of a coffee shop in our university campus. The novel wait-time estimation algorithms deployed at the cloud backend provide mean absolute errors of less than 2-3 minutes.
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Bulut, M.F., Yilmaz, Y.S., Demirbas, M., Ferhatosmanoglu, N., Ferhatosmanoglu, H. (2013). LineKing: Crowdsourced Line Wait-Time Estimation Using Smartphones. In: Uhler, D., Mehta, K., Wong, J.L. (eds) Mobile Computing, Applications, and Services. MobiCASE 2012. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 110. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36632-1_12
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