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APGV
2004
ACM
143views Visualization» more  APGV 2004»
15 years 3 months ago
Perceiving translucent materials
Many common materials, including fruit, wax and human skin, are somewhat translucent. What makes an object look translucent or opaque? Here we use a recently developed computer gr...
Roland W. Fleming, Henrik Wann Jensen, Heinrich H....
SIGDOC
2004
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Automatic evaluation of aspects of document quality
Coh-Metrix is a web-based application currently in development that automatically evaluates text. It uses two central concepts from discourse processing: text-based cohesion and s...
David F. Dufty, Danielle S. McNamara, Max M. Louwe...
SIGECOM
2004
ACM
120views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2004»
15 years 3 months ago
Robust incentive techniques for peer-to-peer networks
Lack of cooperation (free riding) is one of the key problems that confronts today’s P2P systems. What makes this problem particularly difficult is the unique set of challenges ...
Michal Feldman, Kevin Lai, Ion Stoica, John Chuang
SIGECOM
2004
ACM
135views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2004»
15 years 3 months ago
Applying learning algorithms to preference elicitation
We consider the parallels between the preference elicitation problem in combinatorial auctions and the problem of learning an unknown function from learning theory. We show that l...
Sébastien Lahaie, David C. Parkes
SIGECOM
2004
ACM
93views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2004»
15 years 3 months ago
Strategic deliberation and truthful revelation: an impossibility result
In many market settings, agents do not know their preferences a priori. Instead, they may have to solve computationally complex optimization problems, query databases, or perform ...
Kate Larson, Tuomas Sandholm