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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 success. An incentive module attracts volunteer participation and ensures their constant availability for the smooth movement of surplus food. While the existing incentive mechanism gets the attention of the volunteers, it fails to account for the degree of activity of the volunteers. This work modifies the incentive scheme to ensure that the activities of the volunteers are taken into consideration. The proposed mechanism manages to discourage inactivity with lower incentives and promote proactivity with higher incentives while disbursing the same total incentive amount taking all volunteers together.
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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.
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Sanyal, S., Mukhopadhyay, S., Xhafa, F., Kumar Singh, V., Sanyal, B. (2023). Incentives in Surplus Food Distribution for Smart Cities and Beyond: An Activity Aware Solution. In: Shinkuma, R., Xhafa, F., Nishio, T. (eds) Advances in Engineering and Information Science Toward Smart City and Beyond. Engineering Cyber-Physical Systems and Critical Infrastructures, vol 5. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-29301-6_4
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