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CORR
2010
Springer
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Human Speed-Accuracy Tradeoffs in Search
When foraging for information, users face a tradeoff between the accuracy and value of the acquired information and the time spent collecting it, a problem which also surfaces whe...
Christina Aperjis, Bernardo A. Huberman, Fang Wu
CORR
2008
Springer
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On Directed Information and Gambling
We study the problem of gambling in horse races with causal side information and show that Massey's directed information characterizes the increment in the maximum achievable ...
Haim H. Permuter, Young-Han Kim, Tsachy Weissman
CORR
2010
Springer
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Influence and Passivity in Social Media
The ever-increasing amount of information flowing through Social Media forces the members of these networks to compete for attention and influence by relying on other people to sp...
Daniel M. Romero, Wojciech Galuba, Sitaram Asur, B...
CORR
2008
Springer
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The Physical World as a Virtual Reality
This paper explores the idea that the universe is a virtual reality created by information processing, and relates this strange idea to the findings of modern physics about the ph...
Brian Whitworth
CORR
2010
Springer
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A Game Theoretical Approach to Modeling Information Dissemination in Social Networks
One major function of social networks (e.g., massive online social networks) is the dissemination of information such as scientific knowledge, news, and rumors. Information can be...
Dmitry Zinoviev, Vy Duong, Honggang Zhang
CORR
2010
Springer
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Information Distance
While Kolmogorov complexity is the accepted absolute measure of information content in an individual finite object, a similarly absolute notion is needed for the information distan...
Charles H. Bennett, Péter Gács, Ming...
CORR
2010
Springer
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An Ontology-based Context Aware System for Selective Dissemination of Information in a Digital Library
Users of Institutional Repositories and Digital Libraries are known by their needs for very specific information about one or more subjects. To characterize users profiles and offe...
Marisa R. De Giusti, Gonzalo L. Villarreal, Agust&...
COMCOM
2008
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A TTP-free protocol for location privacy in location-based services
Location-based services (LBS) will be a keystone of the new information society that is founded on the information and communications technologies (ICTs). Mobile devices such as c...
Agusti Solanas, Antoni Martínez-Ballest&eac...
COMCOM
2010
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Measuring long-term location privacy in vehicular communication systems
Vehicular communication systems are an emerging form of communication that enables new ways of cooperation among vehicles, traffic operators, and service providers. However, many ...
Zhendong Ma, Frank Kargl, Michael Weber
BMCBI
2008
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OntoDas - a tool for facilitating the construction of complex queries to the Gene Ontology
Background: Ontologies such as the Gene Ontology can enable the construction of complex queries over biological information in a conceptual way, however existing systems to do thi...
Kieran O'Neill, Alexander García Castro, An...