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MSR
2009
ACM
15 years 7 months ago
Code siblings: Technical and legal implications of copying code between applications
Source code cloning does not happen within a single system only. It can also occur between one system and another. We use the term code sibling to refer to a code clone that evolv...
Daniel M. Germán, Massimiliano Di Penta, Ya...
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RECSYS
2009
ACM
15 years 7 months ago
Getting recommender systems to think outside the box
We examine the case of over-specialization in recommender systems, which results from returning items that are too similar to those previously rated by the user. We propose Outsid...
Zeinab Abbassi, Sihem Amer-Yahia, Laks V. S. Laksh...
SIGCOMM
2009
ACM
15 years 7 months ago
In defense of wireless carrier sense
Carrier sense is often used to regulate concurrency in wireless medium access control (MAC) protocols, balancing interference protection and spatial reuse. Carrier sense is known ...
Micah Z. Brodsky, Robert T. Morris
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SIGECOM
2009
ACM
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15 years 7 months ago
Approximate mechanism design without money
The literature on algorithmic mechanism design is mostly concerned with game-theoretic versions of optimization problems to which standard economic money-based mechanisms cannot b...
Ariel D. Procaccia, Moshe Tennenholtz
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SIGECOM
2009
ACM
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Eliciting truthful answers to multiple-choice questions
Motivated by the prevalence of online questionnaires in electronic commerce, and of multiple-choice questions in such questionnaires, we consider the problem of eliciting truthful...
Nicolas S. Lambert, Yoav Shoham