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IIE
2008
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13 years 4 months ago
Exploring Technologies, Materials, and Methods for an Online Foundational Programming Course
Introductory computer programming courses are inherently challenging for a variety of reasons. With increased demands for online delivery, the use of effective technologies, materi...
Eman El-Sheikh, John W. Coffey, Laura J. White
ECCC
2006
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13 years 4 months ago
Efficient Algorithms for Online Game Playing and Universal Portfolio Management
We introduce a new algorithm and a new analysis technique that is applicable to a variety of online optimization scenarios, including regret minimization for Lipschitz regret func...
Amit Agarwal, Elad Hazan
DSS
2006
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13 years 4 months ago
Reputation distribution and consumer-to-consumer online auction market structure: an exploratory study
The rapid growth of the consumer-to-consumer online auction market demands research into its market structure and future trends. We propose that online reputation is becoming an i...
Zhangxi Lin, Dahui Li, Balaji Janamanchi, Wayne Hu...
ALGORITHMICA
2010
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13 years 5 months ago
A Preemptive Algorithm for Maximizing Disjoint Paths on Trees
We consider the online version of the maximum vertex disjoint path problem when the underlying network is a tree. In this problem, a sequence of requests arrives in an online fash...
Yossi Azar, Uriel Feige, Daniel Glasner
ICWSM
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Who Acquires Friends Through Social Media and Why? "Rich Get Richer" Versus "Seek and Ye Shall Find"
There is an ongoing debate, not just among academics but in popular culture, about whether social media can expand people's social networks, and whether online friends can be...
Zeynep Tufekci
CIKM
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Mining blog stories using community-based and temporal clustering
In recent years, weblogs, or blogs for short, have become an important form of online content. The personal nature of blogs, online interactions between bloggers, and the temporal...
Arun Qamra, Belle L. Tseng, Edward Y. Chang
CANDT
2009
13 years 8 months ago
Supportive communication, sense of virtual community and health outcomes in online infertility groups
Women are turning to online health groups to deal with the stresses and complications of infertility. Online groups may provide a resource that is potentially absent in their face...
Jennifer L. Welbourne, Anita L. Blanchard, Marla D...
GECCO
2003
Springer
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13 years 10 months ago
Using Genetic Algorithms for Data Mining Optimization in an Educational Web-Based System
This paper presents an approach for classifying students in order to predict their final grade based on features extracted from logged data in an education web-based system. A comb...
Behrouz Minaei-Bidgoli, William F. Punch
IWPEC
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Online Problems, Pathwidth, and Persistence
Abstract. We explore the effects of using graph width metrics as restrictions on the input to online problems. It seems natural to suppose that, for graphs having some form of bou...
Rodney G. Downey, Catherine McCartin
DIGRA
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Virtually Visual: The effects of visual technologies on online identification
Identification is regarded as an important aspect of beneficial online interaction. In addition to providing the individual with potential psychological benefits, identification w...
Jennifer Martin