Abstract—Gold farming refers to the illicit practice of gathering and selling virtual goods in online games for real money. Although around one million gold farmers engage in gol...
Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad, Brian Keegan, Jaideep Sr...
Abstract—The permanent growth of personal music collections caused by the ongoing digital revolution asks for novel ways of organization. Traditional list based approaches are—...
Lukas Bossard, Michael Kuhn 0002, Roger Wattenhofe...
—A significant percentage of online content is now published and consumed via the mechanism of crowdsourcing. While any user can contribute to these forums, a disproportionately...
Fang Wu, Dennis M. Wilkinson, Bernardo A. Huberman
—When the Internet was conceived, its fundamental operation was envisioned to be point-to-point communication allowing anybody to talk directly to anybody. With its increasing su...
—Reputation mechanisms are essential for online transactions, where the parties have little prior experience with one another. This is especially true when transactions result in...