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HUC
2009
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Applying pervasive technologies to create economic incentives that alter consumer behavior
Economic incentives are a powerful way of shaping consumer behavior towards more commercially efficient and environmentally sustainable patterns. In this paper, we explore the id...
Tetsuo Yamabe, Vili Lehdonvirta, Hitoshi Ito, Hayu...
PERSUASIVE
2010
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Activity-Based Micro-pricing: Realizing Sustainable Behavior Changes through Economic Incentives
Abstract. In this paper, we further develop the idea of combining pervasive computing techniques with electronic payment systems to create activity-based micro-incentives. Economic...
Tetsuo Yamabe, Vili Lehdonvirta, Hitoshi Ito, Hayu...
DIMVA
2011
12 years 8 months ago
What's Clicking What? Techniques and Innovations of Today's Clickbots
Abstract. With the widespread adoption of Internet advertising, fraud has become a systemic problem. While the existence of clickbots—malware specialized for conducting click-fra...
Brad Miller, Paul Pearce, Chris Grier, Christian K...
SIGCOMM
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Economic issues in shared infrastructures
We define some interesting incentive issues that arise in the management of virtual infrastructures. We demonstrate that participants’ decisions about the quantities of infrast...
Costas Courcoubetis, Richard R. Weber
IJCAI
1997
13 years 6 months ago
Machine Learning Techniques to Make Computers Easier to Use
Identifying user-dependent information that can be automatically collected helps build a user model by which 1) to predict what the user wants to do next and 2) to do relevant pre...
Hiroshi Motoda, Kenichi Yoshida