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SIGECOM
2011
ACM
216views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2011»
12 years 11 months ago
Strategic sequential voting in multi-issue domains and multiple-election paradoxes
In many settings, a group of agents must come to a joint decision on multiple issues. In practice, this is often done by voting on the issues in sequence. In this paper, we model ...
Lirong Xia, Vincent Conitzer, Jérôme ...
GIL
2011
12 years 8 months ago
Information Services for Agri-Food Supply Chains - A Framework for Development
Abstract: Several global developments such as the growing demand for bioenergy, limits in the availability of water and diminishing production resources as well as sector-wide cris...
Richard J. Lehmann, Robert Reiche, Melanie Fritz, ...
SDM
2012
SIAM
278views Data Mining» more  SDM 2012»
11 years 11 months ago
Legislative Prediction via Random Walks over a Heterogeneous Graph
In this article, we propose a random walk-based model to predict legislators’ votes on a set of bills. In particular, we first convert roll call data, i.e. the recorded votes a...
Jun Wang, Kush R. Varshney, Aleksandra Mojsilovic
SIGMETRICS
2008
ACM
115views Hardware» more  SIGMETRICS 2008»
13 years 8 months ago
Densification arising from sampling fixed graphs
During the past decade, a number of different studies have identified several peculiar properties of networks that arise from a diverse universe, ranging from social to computer n...
Pedram Pedarsani, Daniel R. Figueiredo, Matthias G...
FOCS
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Mixing Time of Exponential Random Graphs
A plethora of random graph models have been developed in recent years to study a range of problems on networks, driven by the wide availability of data from many social, telecommu...
Shankar Bhamidi, Guy Bresler, Allan Sly