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WWW
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Measurement and analysis of an online content voting network: a case study of Digg
In online content voting networks, aggregate user activities (e.g., submitting and rating content) make high-quality content thrive through the unprecedented scale, high dynamics ...
Yingwu Zhu
CSE
2009
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Is the Crowd's Wisdom Biased? A Quantitative Analysis of Three Online Communities
We present a study of user voting on three websites: Imdb, Amazon and BookCrossings. Here we report on an expert evaluation of the voting mechanisms of each website and a quantitat...
Vassilis Kostakos
WWW
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
How opinions are received by online communities: a case study on amazon.com helpfulness votes
There are many on-line settings in which users publicly express opinions. A number of these offer mechanisms for other users to evaluate these opinions; a canonical example is Ama...
Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Gueorgi Kossinet...
ATAL
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Decentralized voting with unconditional privacy
The aggregation of conflicting preferences is a key issue in multiagent systems. Due to its universality, voting has a central role among preference aggregation mechanisms. Votin...
Felix Brandt, Tuomas Sandholm
WSC
2008
13 years 7 months ago
MMOHILS: A simpler approach to valid agents in human simulation studies
A novel technique for accurately and inexpensively simulating large numbers of people is introduced: Massively Multiplayer Online Human In the Loop Simulation (MMOHILS). This tech...
Seth N. Hetu, Gary Tan