Diffusion processes taking place in social networks are used to model a number of phenomena, such as the spread of human or computer viruses, and the adoption of products in `vira...
Mediators are third parties to whom the players in a game can delegate the task of choosing a strategy; a mediator forms a mediated equilibrium if delegating is a best response for...
Joshua R. Davis, David Liben-Nowell, Alexa Sharp, ...
Collaborative Filtering based on similarity suffers from a variety of problems such as sparsity and scalability. In this paper, we propose an ontological model of trust between us...
Alireza Zarghami, Soude Fazeli, Nima Dokoohaki, Mi...
The social news aggregator Digg allows users to submit and moderate stories by voting on (digging) them. As is true of most social sites, user participation on Digg is nonuniforml...
The emergence of social conventions in multi-agent systems has been analyzed mainly in settings where every agent may interact either with every other agent or with nearest neighb...