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CHI
2010
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Catalyzing social support for breast cancer patients
Social support is a critical, yet underutilized resource when undergoing cancer care. Underutilization occurs in two conditions: (a) when patients fail to seek out information, ma...
Meredith M. Skeels, Kenton T. Unruh, Christopher P...
WS
2008
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
Metcalfe's law, Web 2.0, and the Semantic Web
: The power of the Web is enhanced through the network effect produced as resources link to each other with the value determined by Metcalfe's law. In Web 2.0 applications, mu...
James A. Hendler, Jennifer Golbeck
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Resource limitations, transmission costs and critical thresholds in scale-free networks
Whether or not a critical threshold exists when epidemic diseases are spread in complex networks is a problem attracting attention from researchers in several disciplines. In 2001...
Chung-Yuan Huang, Chuen-Tsai Sun, Chia-Ying Cheng,...
IPPS
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Improving cooperation in peer-to-peer systems using social networks
Rational and selfish nodes in P2P systems usually lack effective incentives to cooperate, contributing to the increase of free-riders, and degrading the system performance. Variou...
Wenyu Wang, Li Zhao, Ruixi Yuan
AAAI
2012
11 years 7 months ago
Security Games for Controlling Contagion
Many strategic actions carry a ‘contagious’ component beyond the immediate locale of the effort itself. Viral marketing and peacekeeping operations have both been observed to ...
Jason Tsai, Thanh H. Nguyen, Milind Tambe