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CCS
2011
ACM
12 years 5 months ago
Privacy and accountability for location-based aggregate statistics
A significant and growing class of location-based mobile applications aggregate position data from individual devices at a server and compute aggregate statistics over these posi...
Raluca A. Popa, Andrew J. Blumberg, Hari Balakrish...
CORR
2012
Springer
218views Education» more  CORR 2012»
12 years 1 months ago
On the Hardness of Welfare Maximization in Combinatorial Auctions with Submodular Valuations
We present a new type of monotone submodular functions: multi-peak submodular functions. Roughly speaking, given a family of sets F, we construct a monotone submodular function f ...
Shahar Dobzinski, Jan Vondrák
CSCW
2012
ACM
12 years 1 months ago
Socializing volunteers in an online community: a field experiment
Although many off-line organizations give their employees training, mentorship, a cohort and other socialization experiences that improve their retention and productivity, online ...
Rosta Farzan, Robert Kraut, Aditya Pal, Joseph A. ...
KDD
2012
ACM
200views Data Mining» more  KDD 2012»
11 years 8 months ago
Vertex neighborhoods, low conductance cuts, and good seeds for local community methods
The communities of a social network are sets of vertices with more connections inside the set than outside. We theoretically demonstrate that two commonly observed properties of s...
David F. Gleich, C. Seshadhri
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
213views Education» more  SIGCSE 2009»
14 years 6 months ago
Engaging middle school teachers and students with alice in a diverse set of subjects
This paper describes the integration of the Alice 3D virtual worlds environment into a diverse set of subjects in middle school, including the development of tutorials, example wo...
Susan H. Rodger, Jenna Hayes, Gaetjens Lezin, Henr...