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SDM
2012
SIAM
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11 years 8 months ago
Legislative Prediction via Random Walks over a Heterogeneous Graph
In this article, we propose a random walk-based model to predict legislators’ votes on a set of bills. In particular, we first convert roll call data, i.e. the recorded votes a...
Jun Wang, Kush R. Varshney, Aleksandra Mojsilovic
CHI
2005
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
User experience: an umbrella topic
This position paper represents my views on how we address the multi-disciplinary needs of the user experience industry. While each profession struggles to deepen its core skills a...
Keith Instone
CORR
2010
Springer
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13 years 6 months ago
Mobile Information Collectors' Trajectory Data Warehouse Design
To analyze complex phenomena which involve moving objects, Trajectory Data Warehouse (TDW) seems to be an answer for many recent decision problems related to various professions (...
Wided Oueslati, Jalel Akaichi
CHI
2010
ACM
13 years 3 months ago
Connect 2 congress: visual analytics for civic oversight
Strong representative democracies rely on educated, informed, and active citizenry to provide oversight of the government. We present Connect 2 Congress (C2C), a novel, high tempo...
Peter Kinnaird, Mario Romero, Gregory D. Abowd
CIKM
2009
Springer
14 years 24 days ago
Voting in social networks
A voting system is a set of rules that a community adopts to take collective decisions. In this paper we study voting systems for a particular kind of community: electronically me...
Paolo Boldi, Francesco Bonchi, Carlos Castillo, Se...