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SIGECOM
2009
ACM
118views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
Modeling volatility in prediction markets
There is significant experimental evidence that prediction markets are efficient mechanisms for aggregating information and are more accurate in forecasting events than tradition...
Nikolay Archak, Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis
SDM
2012
SIAM
278views Data Mining» more  SDM 2012»
11 years 10 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
PERVASIVE
2011
Springer
12 years 10 months ago
NextPlace: A Spatio-temporal Prediction Framework for Pervasive Systems
Abstract. Accurate and fine-grained prediction of future user location and geographical profile has interesting and promising applications including targeted content service, adv...
Salvatore Scellato, Mirco Musolesi, Cecilia Mascol...
ICIC
2009
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
An Intelligent Prediction Model for Generating LGD Trigger of IEEE 802.21 MIH
IEEE recently standardized 802.21-2008 Media Independent Handover (MIH) standard. MIH is a key milestone toward the evolution of integrated heterogeneous 4G wireless networks. MIH ...
Muhammad Yousaf, Sohail Bhatti, Maaz Rehan, Amir Q...
EMNLP
2010
13 years 5 months ago
A Latent Variable Model for Geographic Lexical Variation
The rapid growth of geotagged social media raises new computational possibilities for investigating geographic linguistic variation. In this paper, we present a multi-level genera...
Jacob Eisenstein, Brendan O'Connor, Noah A. Smith,...