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SIGECOM
2006
ACM
139views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2006»
13 years 12 months ago
Playing games in many possible worlds
In traditional game theory, players are typically endowed with exogenously given knowledge of the structure of the game—either full omniscient knowledge or partial but fixed in...
Matt Lepinski, David Liben-Nowell, Seth Gilbert, A...
ATAL
2003
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Searching social networks
A referral system is a multiagent system whose member agents are capable of giving and following referrals. The specific cases of interest arise where each agent has a user. The ...
Bin Yu, Munindar P. Singh
WWW
2010
ACM
14 years 29 days ago
Earthquake shakes Twitter users: real-time event detection by social sensors
Twitter, a popular microblogging service, has received much attention recently. An important characteristic of Twitter is its real-time nature. For example, when an earthquake occ...
Takeshi Sakaki, Makoto Okazaki, Yutaka Matsuo
ICCS
2001
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
On the Effectiveness of D-BSP as a Bridging Model of Parallel Computation
This paper surveys and places into perspective a number of results concerning the D-BSP (Decomposable Bulk Synchronous Parallel) model of computation, a variant of the popular BSP ...
Gianfranco Bilardi, Carlo Fantozzi, Andrea Pietrac...
CORR
2004
Springer
180views Education» more  CORR 2004»
13 years 5 months ago
Self-Organized Stigmergic Document Maps: Environment as a Mechanism for Context Learning
Social insect societies and more specifically ant colonies, are distributed systems that, in spite of the simplicity of their individuals, present a highly structured social organi...
Vitorino Ramos, Juan J. Merelo Guervós