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MABS
2007
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Beyond Accuracy. Reputation for Partner Selection with Lies and Retaliation
In an unpredictable, heterogeneous world, intelligent agents depend on accurate social information; reputation, among the preeminent artifacts to transmit social evaluations, has b...
Isaac Pinyol, Mario Paolucci, Jordi Sabater-Mir, R...
CIKM
2011
Springer
12 years 9 months ago
Building directories for social tagging systems
Today, a number of algorithms exist for constructing tag hierarchies from social tagging data. While these algorithms were designed with ontological goals in mind, we know very li...
Denis Helic, Markus Strohmaier
ICCS
2009
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Balancing Scientist Needs and Volunteer Preferences in Volunteer Computing Using Constraint Optimization
BOINC is a middleware for Volunteer Computing. In BOINC projects, heterogeneous resources distributed across the Internet are used for large-scale scientific simulations. The larg...
James Atlas, Trilce Estrada, Keith Decker, Michela...
EWSN
2010
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Selective Reprogramming of Mobile Sensor Networks through Social Community Detection
Abstract. We target application domains where the behavior of animals or humans is monitored using wireless sensor network (WSN) devices. The code on these devices is updated frequ...
Bence Pásztor, Luca Mottola, Cecilia Mascol...
CSCW
2000
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Bowling alone: the collapse and revival of American community
Drawing on a sample of 493 respondents from 21 counties in a southeastern state, this study examines the rate of business start-ups in relation to various measures of community so...
Robert D. Putnam