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ATAL
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
MDPOP: faithful distributed implementation of efficient social choice problems
We model social choice problems in which self interested agents with private utility functions have to agree on values for a set of variables subject to side constraints. The goal...
Adrian Petcu, Boi Faltings, David C. Parkes
ICSE
2011
IEEE-ACM
12 years 8 months ago
Configuring global software teams: a multi-company analysis of project productivity, quality, and profits
In this paper, we examined the impact of project-level configurational choices of globally distributed software teams on project productivity, quality, and profits. Our analysis u...
Narayan Ramasubbu, Marcelo Cataldo, Rajesh Krishna...
CORR
2008
Springer
127views Education» more  CORR 2008»
13 years 5 months ago
Theory of Rumour Spreading in Complex Social Networks
We introduce a general stochastic model for the spread of rumours, and derive mean-field equations that describe the dynamics of the model on complex social networks (in particula...
Maziar Nekovee, Yamir Moreno, G. Bianconi, M. Mars...
NIPS
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Posterior Consistency of the Silverman g-prior in Bayesian Model Choice
Kernel supervised learning methods can be unified by utilizing the tools from regularization theory. The duality between regularization and prior leads to interpreting regularizat...
Zhihua Zhang, Michael I. Jordan, Dit-Yan Yeung
IPPS
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Random choices for churn resilient load balancing in peer-to-peer networks
Peer-to-peer (P2P) networks based on consistent hashing functions have an inherent load uneven distribution problem. Things are even worse in unstructured P2P systems. The objecti...
Song Fu, Cheng-Zhong Xu, Haiying Shen