Research Article

pMATE: A Privacy-Preserving Map Retrieval Task Assignment Scheme in Spatial Crowdsourcing

Algorithm 4

FMN.
Input: 𝕄’;
Output: int x[];   //an array of the nearest TWs’ numbers
Initialize int k, p, i ← n − 1, j ← n;   //n = 
While do
   p ← 
  if p = −1  //
    j ← i, i ← i − 1;
     else  //
    i ← i − 1;
p ← 
if p = 1  //return j, set j max
  x[] = FE (j);
  return x[];
  else  //return 1, set 1 max
  x[] = FE (1);
     return x[];