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FIRSTMONDAY
2010
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13 years 7 months ago
The social environment model: Small heroes and the evolution of human society
Traditional "realistic" theories of social action, whether based on the individual gain heuristics of capitalism or the collective class struggles of communism, cannot e...
Brian Whitworth, Alex P. Whitworth
ICSE
2004
IEEE-ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Architecting in the Face of Uncertainty: An Experience Report
Understanding an application's functional and nonfunctional requirements is normally seen as essential for developing a robust product suited to client needs. This paper desc...
Ian Gorton, Jereme Haack
CORR
2008
Springer
123views Education» more  CORR 2008»
13 years 10 months ago
Networks become navigable as nodes move and forget
Abstract. We propose a dynamic process for network evolution, aiming at explaining the emergence of the small world phenomenon, i.e., the statistical observation that any pair of i...
Augustin Chaintreau, Pierre Fraigniaud, Emmanuelle...
WAW
2010
Springer
235views Algorithms» more  WAW 2010»
13 years 7 months ago
Multiplicative Attribute Graph Model of Real-World Networks
Large scale real-world network data such as social and information networks are ubiquitous. The study of such social and information networks seeks to find patterns and explain th...
Myunghwan Kim, Jure Leskovec
JSAC
2006
106views more  JSAC 2006»
13 years 9 months ago
Mathematical Decomposition Techniques for Distributed Cross-Layer Optimization of Data Networks
Abstract--Network performance can be increased if the traditionally separated network layers are jointly optimized. Recently, network utility maximization has emerged as a powerful...
Björn Johansson, Pablo Soldati, Mikael Johans...