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LATIN
2010
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Randomized Truthful Algorithms for Scheduling Selfish Tasks on Parallel Machines
We study the problem of designing truthful algorithms for scheduling a set of tasks, each one owned by a selfish agent, to a set of parallel (identical or unrelated) machines in or...
Eric Angel, Evripidis Bampis, Nicolas Thibault
PERVASIVE
2010
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Tactile Wayfinder: Comparison of Tactile Waypoint Navigation with Commercial Pedestrian Navigation Systems
Abstract. In this paper we report on a field study comparing a commercial pedestrian navigation system to a tactile navigation system called Tactile Wayfinder. Similar to previous ...
Martin Pielot, Susanne Boll
CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
A random walk on the red carpet: rating movies with user reviews and pagerank
Although PageRank has been designed to estimate the popularity of Web pages, it is a general algorithm that can be applied to the analysis of other graphs other than one of hypert...
Derry Tanti Wijaya, Stéphane Bressan
DOCENG
2008
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Towards Brazilian Portuguese automatic text simplification systems
In this paper we investigate the main linguistic phenomena that can make texts complex and how they could be simplified. We focus on a corpus analysis of simple account texts avai...
Sandra M. Aluísio, Lucia Specia, Thiago Ale...
FPLAY
2008
13 years 10 months ago
Using conflict theory to model complex societal interactions
Conflict theory can be used to explain the interactions between societies during times of turmoil and change (i.e. revolutions, strikes or everyday debates). Games have been produ...
Ben Medler, Joe Fitzgerald, Brian Magerko