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FOCS
2009
IEEE
14 years 1 days ago
Reducibility among Fractional Stability Problems
— In a landmark paper [32], Papadimitriou introduced a number of syntactic subclasses of TFNP based on proof styles that (unlike TFNP) admit complete problems. A recent series of...
Shiva Kintali, Laura J. Poplawski, Rajmohan Rajara...
IJCAI
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Computational Aspects of Analyzing Social Network Dynamics
Motivated by applications such as the spread of epidemics and the propagation of influence in social networks, we propose a formal model for analyzing the dynamics of such networ...
Christopher L. Barrett, Harry B. Hunt III, Madhav ...
CORR
2011
Springer
160views Education» more  CORR 2011»
13 years 9 days ago
When is social computation better than the sum of its parts?
good solutions to complex problems. In many examples, individuals trying to solve superior global solution. This suggests that there may be general principles of information aggre...
Vadas Gintautas, Aric A. Hagberg, Luís M. A...
CIAC
2010
Springer
263views Algorithms» more  CIAC 2010»
14 years 2 months ago
The Complexity of Computing Minimal Unidirectional Covering Sets
Abstract. Given a binary dominance relation on a set of alternatives, a common thread in the social sciences is to identify subsets of alternatives that satisfy certain notions of ...
Dorothea Baumeister, Felix Brandt, Felix Fischer, ...
HICSS
1999
IEEE
110views Biometrics» more  HICSS 1999»
13 years 9 months ago
Voting before Discussing: Computer Voting as Social Communication
This paper presents a case study on the use of an alternative method of computer support to that normally used, one that uses voting as a tool for social rather than rational choi...
Brian Whitworth, Robert J. McQueen