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WINE
2009
Springer
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13 years 11 months ago
Prediction Mechanisms That Do Not Incentivize Undesirable Actions
A potential downside of prediction markets is that they may incentivize agents to take undesirable actions in the real world. For example, a prediction market for whether a terrori...
Peng Shi, Vincent Conitzer, Mingyu Guo
ATAL
2011
Springer
12 years 4 months ago
Information elicitation for decision making
Proper scoring rules, particularly when used as the basis for a prediction market, are powerful tools for eliciting and aggregating beliefs about events such as the likely outcome...
Yiling Chen, Ian A. Kash
BMCBI
2007
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13 years 4 months ago
False occurrences of functional motifs in protein sequences highlight evolutionary constraints
Background: False occurrences of functional motifs in protein sequences can be considered as random events due solely to the sequence composition of a proteome. Here we use a nume...
Allegra Via, Pier Federico Gherardini, Enrico Ferr...
TKDE
2010
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13 years 3 months ago
P2P Reputation Management Using Distributed Identities and Decentralized Recommendation Chains
—Peer-to-peer (P2P) networks are vulnerable to peers who cheat, propagate malicious code, leech on the network, or simply do not cooperate. The traditional security techniques de...
Prashant Dewan, Partha Dasgupta
AAAI
2010
13 years 3 months ago
A Trust Model for Supply Chain Management
hey generalize these factors to the abstract concepts of ability, integrity, and benevolence. This model does not use probabilistic decision theory. Other SCM trust factors have be...
Yasaman Haghpanah, Marie desJardins