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ICWSM
2009
13 years 7 months ago
Information Cascades in the Blogosphere: A Look Behind the Curtain
With an increasing number of people that read, write and comment on blogs, the blogosphere has established itself as an essential medium of communication. A fundamental characteri...
Manos Papagelis, Nilesh Bansal, Nick Koudas
CISS
2008
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
The Chinese Generals Problem
Abstract—To achieve higher reliability, safety, and faulttolerance, many mission-critical detection and decision systems implement consensus algorithms that force the systems’ ...
Edwin Soedarmadji
FUIN
2002
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13 years 9 months ago
Towards an Ontology of Approximate Reason
Abstract. This article introduces structural aspects in an ontology of approximate reason. The basic assumption in this ontology is that approximate reason is a capability of an ag...
James F. Peters, Andrzej Skowron, Jaroslaw Stepani...
SEE
2010
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
The Social Nature of Engineering and its Implications for Risk Taking
Making decisions with an, often significant, element of risk seems to be an integral part of many of the projects of the diverse profession of engineering. Whether it be decisions...
Allison Ross, Nafsika Athanassoulis
IAT
2010
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Selecting Operator Queries Using Expected Myopic Gain
When its human operator cannot continuously supervise (much less teleoperate) an agent, the agent should be able to recognize its limitations and ask for help when it risks making...
Robert Cohn, Michael Maxim, Edmund H. Durfee, Sati...