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2010
ACM
14 years 8 days ago
Money, glory and cheap talk: analyzing strategic behavior of contestants in simultaneous crowdsourcing contests on TopCoder.com
Crowdsourcing is a new Web phenomenon, in which a firm takes a function once performed in-house and outsources it to a crowd, usually in the form of an open contest. Designing ef...
Nikolay Archak
FIRSTMONDAY
2010
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13 years 2 months ago
Bubbles, gullibility, and other challenges for economics, psychology, sociology, and information sciences
Abstract. Gullibility is the principal cause of bubbles. Investors and the general public get snared by a "beautiful illusion" and throw caution to the wind. Attempts to ...
Andrew M. Odlyzko
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2008
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Yes, there is a correlation: - from social networks to personal behavior on the web
Characterizing the relationship that exists between a person's social group and his/her personal behavior has been a long standing goal of social network analysts. In this pa...
Parag Singla, Matthew Richardson