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ATAL
2003
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
Miscomputing ratio: social cost of selfish computing
Auctions are useful mechanism for allocating items (goods, tasks, resources, etc.) in multiagent systems. The bulk of auction theory assumes that the bidders’ valuations for ite...
Kate Larson, Tuomas Sandholm
KDD
2010
ACM
244views Data Mining» more  KDD 2010»
14 years 10 months ago
Finding effectors in social networks
Assume a network (V, E) where a subset of the nodes in V are active. We consider the problem of selecting a set of k active nodes that best explain the observed activation state, ...
Theodoros Lappas, Evimaria Terzi, Dimitrios Gunopu...
WINE
2010
Springer
220views Economy» more  WINE 2010»
14 years 9 months ago
Threshold Models for Competitive Influence in Social Networks
The problem of influence maximization deals with choosing the optimal set of nodes in a social network so as to maximize the resulting spread of a technology (opinion, productowne...
Allan Borodin, Yuval Filmus, Joel Oren
ATAL
2008
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
A few good agents: multi-agent social learning
In this paper, we investigate multi-agent learning (MAL) in a multi-agent resource selection problem (MARS) in which a large group of agents are competing for common resources. Si...
Jean Oh, Stephen F. Smith
CORR
2011
Springer
160views Education» more  CORR 2011»
14 years 6 months ago
When is social computation better than the sum of its parts?
good solutions to complex problems. In many examples, individuals trying to solve superior global solution. This suggests that there may be general principles of information aggre...
Vadas Gintautas, Aric A. Hagberg, Luís M. A...