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ATAL
2003
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
Can software agents influence human relations?: balance theory in agent-mediated communities
We sought to create a social embodied conversational agent to support group interactions, using ‘balance theory’ from social science research on human-human relations. We cond...
Hideyuki Nakanishi, Satoshi Nakazawa, Toru Ishida,...
SIGECOM
2010
ACM
183views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2010»
15 years 2 months ago
The unavailable candidate model: a decision-theoretic view of social choice
One of the fundamental problems in the theory of social choice is aggregating the rankings of a set of agents (or voters) into a consensus ranking. Rank aggregation has found appl...
Tyler Lu, Craig Boutilier
HUC
2009
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
From spaces to places: emerging contexts in mobile privacy
Mobile privacy concerns are central to Ubicomp and yet remain poorly understood. We advocate a diversified approach, enabling the cross-interpretation of data from complementary m...
Clara Mancini, Keerthi Thomas, Yvonne Rogers, Blai...
STOC
1997
ACM
125views Algorithms» more  STOC 1997»
15 years 1 months ago
An Interruptible Algorithm for Perfect Sampling via Markov Chains
For a large class of examples arising in statistical physics known as attractive spin systems (e.g., the Ising model), one seeks to sample from a probability distribution π on an...
James Allen Fill
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SIGIR
1993
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
Development of a Modern OPAC: From REVTOLC to MARIAN
Since 1986 we have investigated the problems and possibilities of applying modern information retrieval methods to large online public access library catalogs (OPACs). In the Retr...
Edward A. Fox, Robert K. France, Eskinder Sahle, A...