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SERA
2007
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
A Particle Swarm Social Model for Multi-Agent Based Insurgency Warfare Simulation
To better understand insurgent activities and asymmetric warfare, a social adaptive model for modeling multiple insurgent groups attacking multiple military and civilian targets i...
Xiaohui Cui, Thomas E. Potok
GECON
2007
Springer
153views Business» more  GECON 2007»
15 years 3 months ago
Managing a Peer-to-Peer Backup System: Does Imposed Fairness Socially Outperform a Revenue-Driven Monopoly?
We study a peer-to-peer backup system, where users offer some of their storage space to provide service for the others. The economic model for such a system is different from the o...
László Toka, Patrick Maillé
SEMCO
2008
IEEE
15 years 6 months ago
Optimal Consensus Intuitive Hand Gesture Vocabulary Design
Gesture interfaces are needed for natural intuitive communication with machine devices. Hand gesture intuitiveness is the cognitive association between a command or intent, and it...
Helman I. Stern, Juan P. Wachs, Yael Edan
SIROCCO
2008
15 years 1 months ago
Word of Mouth: Rumor Dissemination in Social Networks
In this paper we examine the diffusion of competing rumors in social networks. Two players select a disjoint subset of nodes as initiators of the rumor propagation, seeking to maxi...
Jan Kostka, Yvonne Anne Oswald, Roger Wattenhofer
CDC
2008
IEEE
141views Control Systems» more  CDC 2008»
15 years 6 months ago
Distributed welfare games with applications to sensor coverage
We consider a variation of the resource allocation problem. In the traditional problem, there is a global planner who would like to assign a set of players to a set of resources s...
Jason R. Marden, Adam Wierman