—Social networks and discussion boards have become a significant outlet where people communicate and express their opinion freely. Although the social networks themselves are us...
We consider how to construct and maintain a structured overlay P2P network based on the small-world paradigm. Two main attractive properties of a small-world network are (1) a low...
In crowdsourced relevance judging, each crowd worker typically judges only a small number of examples, yielding a sparse and imbalanced set of judgments in which relatively few wo...
Abstract— Internet flash crowds (a.k.a. hot spots) are a phenomenon that result from a sudden, unpredicted increase in an on-line object’s popularity. Currently, there is no e...
We investigate several techniques that partition a crowded virtual environment into regions that can be managed by separate servers or mapped onto different multicast groups. When...