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ASUNAM
2009
IEEE
13 years 12 months ago
Harnessing Wisdom of the Crowds Dynamics for Time-Dependent Reputation and Ranking
—The “wisdom of the crowds” is a concept used to describe the utility of harnessing group behaviour, where user opinion evolves over time and the opinion of the masses collec...
Elizabeth M. Daly
CSE
2009
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Is the Crowd's Wisdom Biased? A Quantitative Analysis of Three Online Communities
We present a study of user voting on three websites: Imdb, Amazon and BookCrossings. Here we report on an expert evaluation of the voting mechanisms of each website and a quantitat...
Vassilis Kostakos
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Using the wisdom of the crowds for keyword generation
In the sponsored search model, search engines are paid by businesses that are interested in displaying ads for their site alongside the search results. Businesses bid for keywords...
Ariel Fuxman, Panayiotis Tsaparas, Kannan Achan, R...
CSCW
2008
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Harnessing the wisdom of crowds in wikipedia: quality through coordination
Wikipedia's success is often attributed to involving large numbers of contributors who improve the accuracy, completeness and clarity of articles while reducing bias. However...
Aniket Kittur, Robert E. Kraut
FC
2008
Springer
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13 years 6 months ago
Evaluating the Wisdom of Crowds in Assessing Phishing Websites
Abstract. We examine the structure and outcomes of user participation in PhishTank, a phishing-report collator. Anyone who wishes may submit URLs of suspected phishing websites, an...
Tyler Moore, Richard Clayton