We describe a usage study of Netscan\Tech, a system that generates and publishes daily a range of social metrics across three dimensions: newsgroup, author, and thread, for a set ...
A. J. Bernheim Brush, Xiaoqing Wang, Tammara Combs...
Despite the ready availability of digital recording technology and the continually decreasing cost of digital storage, browsing audio recordings remains a tedious task. This paper...
Sunil Vemuri, Philip DeCamp, Walter Bender, Chris ...
There is general consensus that critical mass at inception ensures the sustained success of online communities. However, no clear understanding of what constitutes such a 'cr...
Abstract—Widespread emergence of multicore processors will spur development of parallel applications, exposing programmers to degrees of hardware concurrency hitherto unavailable...
In multi-issue negotiations, autonomous agents can act cooperatively to benefit from mutually preferred agreements. However, empirical evidence suggests that they often fail to s...