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ATAL
2010
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
A probabilistic model for trust and reputation
This paper concerns the problem of agent trust in an electronic market place. We maintain that agent trust involves making decisions under uncertainty and therefore the phenomenon...
George Vogiatzis, Ian MacGillivray, Maria Chli
WSDM
2010
ACM
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14 years 6 months ago
Ranking Mechanisms in Twitter-Like Forums
We study the problem of designing a mechanism to rank items in forums by making use of the user reviews such as thumb and star ratings. We compare mechanisms where forum users rat...
Anish Das Sarma, Atish Das Sarma, Sreenivas Gollap...
INFOCOM
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
The Impact of Stochastic Noisy Feedback on Distributed Network Utility Maximization
—The implementation of distributed network utility maximization (NUM) algorithms hinges heavily on information feedback through message passing among network elements. In practic...
Junshan Zhang, Dong Zheng, Mung Chiang
EPS
1998
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Variable-Dimensional Optimization with Evolutionary Algorithms Using Fixed-Length Representations
This paper discusses a simple representation of variable-dimensional optimization problems for evolutionary algorithms. Although it was successfully applied to the optimization of ...
Joachim Sprave, Susanne Rolf
CVPR
2010
IEEE
14 years 13 days ago
Ray Markov Random Fields for Image-Based 3D Modeling: Model and Efficient Inference
In this paper, we present an approach to multi-view image-based 3D reconstruction by statistically inversing the ray-tracing based image generation process. The proposed algorithm...
Shubao Liu, David Cooper