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ETS
2000
IEEE
182views Hardware» more  ETS 2000»
14 years 9 months ago
Conferencing in communities of learners: examples from social history and science communication
A commonly encountered view of computer conferencing focuses on peer interaction, student empowerment and a shift in both teacher and student roles. This paper argues that this vi...
Ann C. Jones, Eileen Scanlon, Canan Tosunoglu Blak...
CORR
2011
Springer
160views Education» more  CORR 2011»
14 years 4 months ago
When is social computation better than the sum of its parts?
good solutions to complex problems. In many examples, individuals trying to solve superior global solution. This suggests that there may be general principles of information aggre...
Vadas Gintautas, Aric A. Hagberg, Luís M. A...
SIGCOMM
2010
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
An analysis of social network-based Sybil defenses
Recently, there has been much excitement in the research community over using social networks to mitigate multiple identity, or Sybil, attacks. A number of schemes have been propo...
Bimal Viswanath, Ansley Post, P. Krishna Gummadi, ...
DASFAA
2009
IEEE
118views Database» more  DASFAA 2009»
14 years 10 months ago
Detecting Aggregate Incongruities in XML
The problem of identifying deviating patterns in XML repositories has important applications in data cleaning, fraud detection, and stock market analysis. Current methods determine...
Wynne Hsu, Qiangfeng Peter Lau, Mong-Li Lee
BMCBI
2007
216views more  BMCBI 2007»
14 years 9 months ago
A replica exchange Monte Carlo algorithm for protein folding in the HP model
Background: The ab initio protein folding problem consists of predicting protein tertiary structure from a given amino acid sequence by minimizing an energy function; it is one of...
Chris Thachuk, Alena Shmygelska, Holger H. Hoos