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CSE
2009
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Is the Crowd's Wisdom Biased? A Quantitative Analysis of Three Online Communities
We present a study of user voting on three websites: Imdb, Amazon and BookCrossings. Here we report on an expert evaluation of the voting mechanisms of each website and a quantitat...
Vassilis Kostakos
SOFSEM
2012
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
RESTGroups for Resilient Web Services
Service resilience, defined as the continued availability of a service despite failures and other negative changes in its environment, is vital in many systems. It is typically ac...
Tadeusz Kobus, Pawel T. Wojciechowski
ITICSE
2005
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
Analyzing relationships between closed labs and course activities in CS1
Closed laboratories are becoming an increasingly popular approach to teaching introductory computer science courses. However, as observed in [1], “Considering the prevalence of ...
Leen-Kiat Soh, Ashok Samal, Suzette Person, Gwen N...
GI
2009
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Perspectives on Tag Clouds for Supporting Reflection in Self-organised Learning
: Tags are popular for organising information in social software based on the personal views of the participants on the information. Tags provide valuable attention meta-data on a ...
Christian Glahn, Marcus Specht, Rob Koper
ACMSE
2007
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Exploring the duality between skip lists and binary search trees
Although skip lists were introduced as an alternative to balanced binary search trees (BSTs), we show that the skip list can be interpreted as a type of randomly-balanced BST whos...
Brian C. Dean, Zachary H. Jones