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CSE
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
A Language of Life: Characterizing People Using Cell Phone Tracks
—Mobile devices can produce continuous streams of data which are often specific to the person carrying them. We show that cell phone tracks from the MIT Reality dataset can be u...
Alexy Khrabrov, George Cybenko
CSE
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Surfing a Web of Trust: Reputation and Reciprocity on CouchSurfing.com
—Reputation mechanisms are essential for online transactions, where the parties have little prior experience with one another. This is especially true when transactions result in...
Debra Lauterbach, Hung Truong, Tanuj Shah, Lada A....
CSE
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
A Stigmergy Approach for Open Source Software Developer Community Simulation
—The stigmergy collaboration approach provides a hypothesized explanation about how online groups work together. In this research, we presented a stigmergy approach for building ...
Xiaohui Cui, Justin Beaver, Jim N. Treadwell, Thom...
CSE
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
A Study of Information Diffusion over a Realistic Social Network Model
—Sociological models of human behavior can explain population-level phenomena within social systems; computer modeling can simulate a wide variety of scenarios and allow one to p...
Andrea Apolloni, Karthik Channakeshava, Lisa Durbe...
CSE
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Davis Social Links or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Net
—When the Internet was conceived, its fundamental operation was envisioned to be point-to-point communication allowing anybody to talk directly to anybody. With its increasing su...
Matt Spear, Xiaoming Lu, Shyhtsun Felix Wu
CSE
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Feedback Loops of Attention in Peer Production
—A significant percentage of online content is now published and consumed via the mechanism of crowdsourcing. While any user can contribute to these forums, a disproportionately...
Fang Wu, Dennis M. Wilkinson, Bernardo A. Huberman
CSE
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Visually and Acoustically Exploring the High-Dimensional Space of Music
Abstract—The permanent growth of personal music collections caused by the ongoing digital revolution asks for novel ways of organization. Traditional list based approaches are—...
Lukas Bossard, Michael Kuhn 0002, Roger Wattenhofe...
CSE
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Implementing Social Norms Using Policies
—Multi-agent systems are difficult to develop. One reason for this is that agents are embedded in a society where all agents must agree to obey certain social norms in order for...
Robert Kremer
CSE
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Community Computing: Comparisons between Rural and Urban Societies Using Mobile Phone Data
Abstract—We present a comparative analysis of the behavioral dynamics of rural and urban societies using four years
Nathan Eagle, Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye, Lu&iacut...
CSE
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Mining for Gold Farmers: Automatic Detection of Deviant Players in MMOGs
Abstract—Gold farming refers to the illicit practice of gathering and selling virtual goods in online games for real money. Although around one million gold farmers engage in gol...
Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad, Brian Keegan, Jaideep Sr...