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ATAL
2011
Springer
12 years 9 months ago
A model of norm emergence and innovation in language change
We analyze and extend a recently proposed model of linguistic diffusion in social networks, to analytically derive time to convergence, and to account for the innovation phase of...
Samarth Swarup, Andrea Apolloni, Zsuzsanna Fagyal
BCSHCI
2008
13 years 11 months ago
News not noise: socially aware information filtering
An understanding of how people in social networks consume news media by and about their friends shows that information overload is soon going to be a major problem for many partic...
Jonathan Melhuish, Russell Beale
AOSE
2005
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Requirements Elicitation for Agent-Based Applications
Requirements elicitation for a software system is a key stage in a successful development. At the same time, it is one of the most challenging, because requirements have to conside...
Rubén Fuentes, Jorge J. Gómez-Sanz, ...
CSCW
2012
ACM
12 years 5 months ago
Of joy and gender: emotional expression in online social networks
In this study, we analyzed the language use on Twitter personal exchanges as well as properties of the users’ networks, to study the influence of gender composition on expressio...
Funda Kivran-Swaine, Samuel Brody, Nicholas Diakop...
ATAL
2011
Springer
12 years 9 months ago
ESCAPES: evacuation simulation with children, authorities, parents, emotions, and social comparison
In creating an evacuation simulation for training and planning, realistic agents that reproduce known phenomenon are required. Evacuation simulation in the airport domain requires...
Jason Tsai, Natalie Fridman, Emma Bowring, Matthew...