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WH
2010
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13 years 2 months ago
Social sensing: obesity, unhealthy eating and exercise in face-to-face networks
What is the role of face-to-face interactions in the diffusion of health-related behaviors- diet choices, exercise habits, and long-term weight changes? We use co-location and com...
Anmol Madan, Sai T. Moturu, David Lazer, Alex Pent...
ATAL
2010
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Strategy-proof allocation of multiple items between two agents without payments or priors
We investigate the problem of allocating items (private goods) among competing agents in a setting that is both prior-free and paymentfree. Specifically, we focus on allocating mu...
Mingyu Guo, Vincent Conitzer
CEC
2007
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Evolving cooperation in the non-iterated prisoner's dilemma: A social network inspired approach
— Online service provision is becoming increasingly decentralized as system designers pursue the benefits gained from utilizing nodes at the periphery of the network. However, d...
T. S. Ellis, X. Yao
WICOMM
2002
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13 years 7 months ago
Open issues on TCP for mobile computing
We discuss the design principles of TCP within the context of heterogeneous wired/wireless networks and mobile networking. We identify three shortcomings in TCP's behavior: (...
Vassilios Tsaoussidis, Ibrahim Matta
INFOCOM
2011
IEEE
12 years 11 months ago
Secure and practical outsourcing of linear programming in cloud computing
—Cloud Computing has great potential of providing robust computational power to the society at reduced cost. It enables customers with limited computational resources to outsourc...
Cong Wang, Kui Ren, Jia Wang