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WWW
2006
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Probabilistic models for discovering e-communities
The increasing amount of communication between individuals in e-formats (e.g. email, Instant messaging and the Web) has motivated computational research in social network analysis...
Ding Zhou, Eren Manavoglu, Jia Li, C. Lee Giles, H...
CSCW
2004
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Leveraging social networks for information sharing
Saori is a computation infrastructure that enables users and enduser applications to leverage social networks to mediate information dissemination. Saori provides users with aware...
Jeremy Goecks, Elizabeth D. Mynatt
BCSHCI
2008
13 years 11 months ago
Creating creative processes: a workshop demonstrating a methodological approach for subjects between the sciences and the arts
There is a lack of `explicit education' of different modes of creativity and different methodologies for initiating creative processes. This is important for not only art pra...
Carola Boehm
SIGECOM
2006
ACM
107views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2006»
14 years 3 months ago
Empirical mechanism design: methods, with application to a supply-chain scenario
Our proposed methods employ learning and search techniques to estimate outcome features of interest as a function of mechanism parameter settings. We illustrate our approach with ...
Yevgeniy Vorobeychik, Christopher Kiekintveld, Mic...
DGO
2008
131views Education» more  DGO 2008»
13 years 11 months ago
A domain-specific language for urban simulation variables
UrbanSim is a modeling system for simulating the development of urban regions over periods of 20-30 years. Its purpose is to help evaluate alternative proposed policies and transp...
Alan Borning, Hana Sevcikova, Paul Waddell